Cleaver House is a historic house and farm located to the west of Port Penn,

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, about one mile east of US 13 and Biddles Corner. The house was built about 1816, and is a two-story, seven-bay, gable-roofed farm dwelling built in three different sections. The three bay, center brick section is the oldest. Attached to the east is a two bay brick section, making it a five bay center hall dwelling, and to the west a -story frame kitchen wing. The house measures 61 feet long by 17 feet wide. Also on the property are a contributing frame barn with attached carriage shed and milk house. and It was listed on the

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in 1985. Joseph Cleaver, a relative of the residents and possible owner of the farm, was a grain merchant in Port Penn. His residence there, also known as the Cleaver House, is a contributing property in the Port Penn Historic District. and

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