Leigh Farm

Leigh Farm
Location East of Chapel Hill off NC 54, near Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°55′19″N 78°58′58″W / 35.92194°N 78.98278°W / 35.92194; -78.98278Coordinates: 35°55′19″N 78°58′58″W / 35.92194°N 78.98278°W / 35.92194; -78.98278
Area 20 acres (8.1 ha)
Built 1834 (1834)
NRHP Reference # 75001257[1]
Added to NRHP September 5, 1975

Leigh Farm is a historic home and farm 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

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. John Baxton Flowers, III, and 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.


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