Site of Clifton-By-The-Sea

Established in 1910 through the partnership of area landowners G. C. Perkins and W. Y. Fuqua, Clifton-by-the-Sea is a reminder of the era in which prosperity returned to Galveston County following the devastating 1900 storm. Developed as a bayside resort ...

Clifton Colored School

Before the Clifton Schoolhouse was built, Butler Campbell and Andrew Jackson's children were home schooled by a black teacher, Mr. Mahaffey. The teacher was paid five dollars for each student after examination by the County School Superintendent. Any locality claiming ...

General Clifton Bledsoe Cates

1893 - 1970

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Clifton B. Cates, born on August 31, 1893, in Cates Landing, Tennessee, attended school in Lake County and the Missouri Military Academy in Mexico, Missouri. A graduate of the University of Tennessee's School of Law, Cates served as ...

Fort Clifton

A stronghold that was never taken

Fort Clifton, constructed between 1862 and 1864, helped protect the city of Petersburg from Union gunboats. Its high elevation and well-placed gun embrasures made Fort Clifton a stronghold that was never taken by Union forces ...

Fort Clifton

Guardian of the Appomattox

Confederate Fort Clifton guarded the Appomattox River and helped protect Petersburg in 1864-1865. The three earthworks that comprised the fort’s batteries still stand on the bluffs along the river. Artillerists and militiamen garrisoned the position in 1862, ...

Fort Clifton

A stronghold that was never taken

Fort Clifton, constructed between 1862 and 1864, helped protect the city of Petersburg from Union gunboats. Its high elevation and well-placed gun embrasures made Fort Clifton a stronghold that was never taken by Union forces ...

Clifton A. F. Sprague, Vice Admiral, USN

Born 8 January 1896 - Died 11 April 1955

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Awards

Navy Cross for the 25 October 1944 action off Samar. Admiral Sprague was aboard the escort carrier, USS Fanshaw Bay during this engagement.

Legion of Merit Medal for his command of the USS ...

Town of Clifton

Historic Rehabilitation Project

Arizona & New Mexico Railway Passenger Station

Built in 1913

Mayor - David R. McCullar

Vice-Mayor - Pamela C. Combs

Councilmember - A. M. 'Tony' Rodriquez

Councilmember - Patricia Fowler

Councilmember - John W. McLaughlin

Councilmember - Joe T. Brinkley

Councilmember - Carol Swart

Town Manager - ...

Clifton Cliff Jail

Blasted from living rock this jail confined many of the bad men who crowed into the district in the boom days. Local tradition says that the first inmate in 1881 was the miner who built the jail. It was contributed ...

J. Clifton Toney

In Memory of J. Clifton Toney

Publisher of the Folsom Telegraph

1962 – 1976

His vision resulted in the

Development of the Sutter Street Mall

Marker is on Sutter Street, in the median.

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