Clermont Farm

Clermont has been a 360 acre working farm (beef cattle and sheep, originally wheat) for 260 years, with significant 18th and 19th century buildings, on Rt. 7 at the east entrance to Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia. It was bequeathed to the Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Historic Resources in 2004 by Elizabeth Rust Williams, a lawyer and judge in Clarke County. It is on the National and State Registers. Four families have owned the farm since Lord Fairfax sent the eighteen-year-old George Washington to survey Clermont on October 19, 1750. In 1819, Elizabeth Williams' great-great grandfather, Dawson McCormick bought the farm, in whose family it remained until 2004.