Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Clarke County Genealogy and History Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption! Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this website become a useful research tool. If you would like to join our group and become the host of this county, please visit our Volunteer Page and contact Kim. (A desire to transcribe data and basic webpage skills are necessary) We regret that we have no time to perform personal research for anybody. All data we come across will be added to this site, so please keep checking back here. If you would like to be notified of when our Virginia sites are updated, Subscribe to our Mailing Lists. Virginia is covered on the Northeast States List County History Clarke County was established in 1836 from Frederick County. The county is named for General George Rogers Clark, of the Revolutionary War. Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, built his home, Greenway Court, on his 5 million acre property in the county, on what is now the village of White Post. White Post was named for the large signpost pointing the way to Lord Fairfax's home. Many of the early settlers of what became Clarke County were children of Tidewater planters, who settled on large land grants from Lord Fairfax. 2/3 of the county was settled by the plantaion group, and the plantation lifestyle thrived until the Civil War. Clarke was known for its large crops of wheat. During the Civil War, John S. Mosby, "the Gray Ghost" of the Confederacy, raided General Sheridan's supply train in the summer of 1864, in Berryville. The Battle of Cool Spring was fought in Clarke County on July 17 and 18th, 1864.   INCORPORATED TOWNS: Berryville - Boyce UNINCORPORATED COMMUNITIES: Berrys - Bethel - Briggs - Castlemans Ferry - Claytonville - Double Tollgate - Frogtown - Gaylord - Greenway Court - Lewisville - Lockes Landing - Lost Corner - Millwood - Pigeon Hill - Pyletown - Saratoga - Stone Bridge - Stringtown Swimley - Wadesville - Waterloo - Webbtown - White Post - Wickliffe Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries Slavery Records Wills/Probate Records Website updates: Dec 2011 Judge George W. Ward Biography Mar 2011 Bios: Byrd Jan 2011: 1840 Pensioners Search our Sites Surrounding Counties * Loudoun County, Virginia - East * Warren County, Virginia - South West * Fauquier County, Virginia - South East * Frederick County, Virginia - West * Jefferson County, West Virginia - North Visit our National Site Visit our VA State Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.