River Bluff is a historic home located near

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. It is sited on a steep bank overlooking the South Fork of the

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. It is a three-part

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brick house consisting of a two-story central pavilion with one-story flanking wings. The main block was constructed about 1785, and the house achieved its final form by about 1805. an
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in 1980.

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