Clifton Plantation
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President George Washington on his southern tour traveled southward over this road, April 2730, 1791. While in this vicinity the day and night of April 29, he was the guest of Captain William Alston on this plantation, Clifton, which originally was a part of the Hobcaw Barony. Erected by the Georgetown County Historical Society, 1991
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