Clifton Baptist Church Complex | |
Location | Clifton Rd., 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of Kentucky Route 52, near Clifton, Kentucky |
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Coordinates | 37°38′49″N84°41′30″W / 37.64694°N 84.69167°W |
Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
Built | 1886 |
NRHP reference No. | 98000085 [1] |
Added to NRHP | February 12, 1998 |
Clifton Baptist Church Complex is a historic church and school complex which is virtually the only remnant of the historic African-American hamlet of Clifton, Kentucky, a community formed after the American Civil War. The church and the school were built in 1886. Other contributing resources in the complex are a dining hall, a privy, a cemetery, a plank fence and a rock fence. [2] The complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. [1]
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