Leigh Farm
Leigh Farm | |
 The Leigh Home as it appeared c. 1837. | |
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| Location | East of Chapel Hill off NC 54, near Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°55′19″N 78°58′58″W / 35.92194°N 78.98278°W |
| Area | 20 acres (8.1 ha) |
| Built | 1834 |
| NRHP reference No. | 75001257[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 5, 1975 |
The Leigh Farm is a historic home and plantation complex located near Chapel Hill, Durham County, North Carolina. The house was built about 1834, and is a one-story, three-bay, frame dwelling with a broad gable roof. Also on the property are the contributing frame gable-roof well, dairy, smokehouse, log slave quarters, a log dwelling, corn crib, frame carriage house, and log tobacco barn.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ John Baxton Flowers, III; Catherine W. Cockshutt (July 1975). "Leigh Farm" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
Categories:
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Houses completed in 1834
- Houses in Durham County, North Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Durham County, North Carolina
- Plantation houses in North Carolina
- Slave cabins and quarters in the United States
- Durham County, North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs