Clifton, Massachusetts

Clifton was a street car stop within the towns of Swampscott and Marblehead in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.

His hotel, "Clifton House", was regaled as one of the finest lodgings in the county.

There has been no mention as Clifton as a place, and it is not known as a village, formally or informally, by any of the residents in the area.

[1] A branch of the Portland division of the Boston & Maine Railroad had a station in Clifton in the 1920s.

The site of the station can be seen from Clifton Avenue and the track bed is now a bike path that extends from neighboring Swampscott station in the south to Salem in the north.

Clifton Avenue
Clifton Station in a 1910 postcard
The book An Era of Progress and Promise, 1863-1910 published following the Clifton Conference