Clifton is a historic

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located near

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. It was built about 1760, and is a two-story, seven-bay frame dwelling in the

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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

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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. an
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in 1973.

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