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Zehmer Farm

Coordinates: 36°59′04″N 77°43′44″W / 36.98444°N 77.72889°W / 36.98444; -77.72889
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Zehmer Farm
Zehmer Farm is located in Virginia
Zehmer Farm
Zehmer Farm is located in the United States
Zehmer Farm
Location9818 Jack Zehmer Rd., McKenney, Virginia
Coordinates36°59′04″N 77°43′44″W / 36.98444°N 77.72889°W / 36.98444; -77.72889
Area309 acres (125 ha)
Built1905 (1905)
Architectural styleLate 19th And 20th Century Revivals
NRHP reference No.09000793[1]
VLR No.257-5008
Significant dates
Added to NRHPSeptember 30, 2009
Designated VLRJune 18, 2009[2]

Zehmer Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near McKenney, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. The farmhouse was built about 1905, and is a one-story, frame L-shaped dwelling with a broad hipped roof and wings added to both sides. Also on the property are a collection of outbuildings and farm structures – including animal shelters, corn crib, flue-cured tobacco barns, dairy barn and milk houses, and the sites of tenant houses, a butcher house, fire-cured tobacco barns and a sawmill.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.[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. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. ^ John G. Zehmer, Jr. (March 2009). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Zehmer Farm" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying four photos