The William E. Beckwith House, also known as the Homestead, is a historic house in Clifton, Fairfax County, Virginia. This frame and weatherboard structurehttps://www.dhr.virginia.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/194-0003_Clifton_HD_1985_Final_Nomination.pdf p. 7 contains the town of Clifton's oldest remaining structure, a Colonial log house originally consisting of three rooms and a large stone hearth. It was part of the 200 acres left by planter William E. Beckwith (b. 1785 in Fairfax Countyhttps://www.cliftonva.gov/index_49_1256504561.pdf p. 1) to the sixteen enslaved people of his plantation, all of whom were freed in his will in 1863.
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