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Historic Homes - Clearview Mansion
Clearview mansion was built by Andrew Buchanan some
time in the last quarter of the 18th century.
Buchanan bought 353 acres adjoining the town of
Falmouth in 1786. The mansion actually stands inside
the original town. The house is
two-stories with a
hipped roof and modillionet cornice, a l t e r e d
in the nineteenth century. It is privately owned
(and lived in by the Sale family) and is not open to
the public.
Clearview is on the National Registry of Historic
homes.
The
town of Falmouth is gone now
and is just an
unofficial area of the county that has kept the
traditional name out of continuous use more than
anything else. Even the Post Office zip code for
Falmouth is actually that of the City of
Fredericksburg, which is on the other side of the
river and outside of Stafford County.
An interesting Blog about "Mary Scott
and Clearview" during the Civil War
Photos
taken and contributed by David E. Cann
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