Clifton Baptist Church Complex

LocationClifton Rd., 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of Kentucky Route 52, near Clifton, Kentucky

Coordinates37°38′49″N 84°41′30″W / 37.64694°N 84.69167°W / 37.64694; -84.69167

Area2 acres (0.81 ha)

Built1886

Clifton Baptist Church Complex
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Clifton Rd., 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of Kentucky Route 52, near Clifton, Kentucky
Coordinates	37°38′49″N 84°41′30″W / 37.64694°N 84.69167°W / 37.64694; -84.69167
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	1886
NRHP reference No.	98000085[1]
Added to NRHP	February 12, 1998

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, a community formed after the American Civil War. 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.^[2] The complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.^[1]