The Water Street Historic District, in

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, is a

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which was listed on the

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in 1992. It includes about of residential properties along Water St. (now

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) between Polk and Cedar streets in Clifton. In 1992 it included 14

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and two non-contributing ones on eight

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. The north edge of three of those parcels is formed by the

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. This historic district is located less than from the Clifton Ferry Landing. In 1992 the Clifton Ferry was one of the last eight ferries surviving in Tennessee. The ferry has since closed, apparently. The historic resources in the district were built from about 1870 to 1940; "the remains of late nineteenth and early twentieth century prosperity survive in the domestic architecture of Water Street." With This period was the post-Civil War boom period in the town. The district has architecture ranging from Queen Anne style and Minimal Traditional architecture.

T.S. Stribling Museum

The district includes the longtime home of

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-winning author T.S. Stribling (1881-1965). It is now operated as the T.S. Stribling Museum. It is one of three

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in the district, which were all built between 1924 and 1930. The T.S. Stribling House, also known as the Kloss-Stribling House, is a two-story house that was built for T. L. Kloss in 1924. It was later purchased by Stribling.

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee National Register of Historic Places in Wayne County, Tennessee {{WayneCountyTN-NRHP-stub