Clifford-New Glasgow Historic District

Clifford-New Glasgow is a linear village in northern Amherst County, between the Tye and Buffalo Rivers, that began as a stage stop on the route between Charlottesville and Lynchburg. Its roughly 30 principal buildings span from the late eighteenth century to the late twentieth century and include Georgian and Federal landmarks such as Winton and Brick House, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, the 1814 Saddlery, and a 1938 Craftsman-style school. Later Craftsman bungalows, Colonial Revival and Ranch houses show the village's growth. The settlement prospered before 1850, declined after the railroad bypassed it and through the Civil War and Reconstruction, and revived with automobile traffic on U.S. Route 29. The realignment of that highway after 1961 ended its commercial role and left a residential hamlet. The district is also notable for its African American families, who built much of the early twentieth-century housing and the 1960 St. Peter's Baptist Church.