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Toombs Tobacco Farm

Coordinates: 36°47′04″N 78°35′36″W / 36.78444°N 78.59333°W / 36.78444; -78.59333
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Toombs Tobacco Farm
Front of the house
Toombs Tobacco Farm is located in Virginia
Toombs Tobacco Farm
Toombs Tobacco Farm is located in the United States
Toombs Tobacco Farm
Location1125 Tates Mill Rd., Red Oak, Virginia
Coordinates36°47′04″N 78°35′36″W / 36.78444°N 78.59333°W / 36.78444; -78.59333
Area128 acres (52 ha)
Builtc. 1830 (1830)
Architectural styleFederal
NRHP reference No.00000027[1]
VLR No.019-5146
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJanuary 28, 2000
Designated VLRSeptember 15, 1999[2]

Toombs Tobacco Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Red Oak, Charlotte County, Virginia, USA. Contributing resources include the main residence, summer kitchen, family cemetery, tobacco barns, smoke house, animal pens and other ancillary structures. The main house is a 1+12-story wood frame dwelling with a standing seam metal roof in a vernacular Federal style. A two-story rear addition was built about 1910. The Toombs family owned the property from the 1830s until 1981.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ^ Department of Historic Resources Staff (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Toombs Tobacco Farm" (PDF). Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission. and Accompanying photo