Clifton Place is an historic plantation mansion located southwest of the city of Columbia, Maury County,

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on the Mt. Pleasant Pike (Columbia highway). Master builder Nathan Vaught started construction in 1838, and the mansion and other buildings were completed in 1839, for

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(1806-1877) on land inherited from Gideon Pillow.

History

Clifton Place was the first of three mansions built for the Pillow brothers by Vaught. Pillow-Bethel House (Bethel House) was built for Jerome Bonaparte Pillow and

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(Pillow-Haliday) for Major Granville A. Pillow. The two story mansion had a two-room attic, a two-room basement and a supply cellar. Single story side-wings were added in 1846. There was an office and separated kitchen. Other service buildings such as a smokehouse, carriage house, more than one barn, farm buildings, and slave quarters were built away from the main house. In 1852 the roof was raised and a

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supported by columns was added to the facade. Son-in-law Melville Williams took over the plantation in 1872, and another relative Colonel J. W. S. Ridley, purchased the property in 1877, and Ridley family members owned the plantation until 1972.Clifton Place
The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture Retrieved September 1, 2014 The mansion was placed on the

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listings in Maury County, Tennessee on July 8, 1970.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Houses in Columbia, Tennessee Houses completed in 1839 1839 establishments in Tennessee National Register of Historic Places in Maury County, Tennessee Slave cabins and quarters in the United States {{MauryCountyTN-NRHP-stub