Clifton is a historic home located at Ednor, Montgomery County,

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. It is a -story

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-roofed brick structure with a lower north wing, also with a gambrel roof. Outbuildings on the property include a wood-frame shed and a guest house or cottage. It is one of the few extant mid-18th-century buildings in Montgomery County and is associated with the local Quaker community, which by 1753 had been organized into the Sandy Spring Meeting of Friends. Clifton was listed on the

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in 1974.

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*, including photo in 1973, at the

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Clifton
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