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 Clifton is a historically African Americnan unincorporated community in Boyle County, Kentucky, United States. See also * Clifford K. Berryman * Clifton Baptist Church Complex Clifton Baptist Church Complex is a historic church and school co ...

, a community formed after the

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. 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. With . The complex was added to the

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in 1998.

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