Located at the intersection of two important colonial roads, the Winchester-Alexandria Road (now VA 7) and the Charles Town-Old Chapel Road (now U.S. 340), the community was first called Battletown. The town took its present name when it was officially chartered in 1798 by Benjamin Berry. When Clarke County was established in 1836, Berryville was designated the county seat. Main Street is characterized by late-nineteenth-century, mostly two-story, commercial buildings and the town includes many examples of late-nineteenth-century Italianate, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival houses. A light industrial area with a late-nineteenth-century flour mill, grain elevator, and warehouse is located at the eastern entrance to the town where Main Street crosses the Norfolk Southern Railway.
Writing Credits
If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.
SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.