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Clifton (Hamilton, Virginia)

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Built
  
c. 1760

VLR #
  
024-0036

Area
  
101 ha

Added to NRHP
  
19 June 1973

NRHP Reference #
  
73002007

Designated VLR
  
April 17, 1973

Architectural style
  
Georgian architecture

Clifton (Hamilton, Virginia)

Location
  
North of Hamilton off VA 690, near Hamilton, Cumberland County, Virginia

Clifton is a historic plantation house located near Hamilton, Cumberland County, Virginia. It was built about 1760, and is a two-story, seven-bay frame dwelling in the Georgian style. It has a hipped roof and a one-bay, one-story wing on the west end. The front facade features a three-bay, one-story gable roof porch supported by elongated Tuscan order columns. It was the home of Carter Henry Harrison (~1727 – 1793/1794), who as a member of the Cumberland Committee of Safety, wrote the Instructions for Independence presented to the Virginia Convention of May 1776.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

References

Clifton (Hamilton, Virginia) Wikipedia