Berryville is the seat of Clarke County, Virginia. The land was granted to Captain Isaac Pennington in 1734 and was surveyed by George Washington in 1750; its rowdy tavern, the scene of fights between Daniel Morgan and local toughs, resulted in the town being nicknamed "Battle Town". Morgan returned to the town after his service in the American Revolutionary War, and the town of Berryville was established in 1798 and named for Benjamin Berry, who acquired the land in 1797. Confederate general Jubal Early used the town as his headquarters during the Valley campaigns of 1864, and the Battle of Berryville was fought there that September. The railroad reached the town in the 1870s, and it came to have a population of 4,371 people in 2019. Clarke County, as a whole, leaned Republican by a roughly 55% to 45% (Democratic) margin starting in 2000.
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