Toombs Tobacco Farm

Toombs Tobacco Farm
Location 1125 Tates Mill Rd., Red Oak, Virginia
Coordinates 36°47′04″N 78°35′36″W / 36.78444°N 78.59333°W / 36.78444; -78.59333Coordinates: 36°47′04″N 78°35′36″W / 36.78444°N 78.59333°W / 36.78444; -78.59333
Area 128 acres (52 ha)
Built c. 1830 (1830)
Architectural style Federal
NRHP Reference # 00000027[1]
VLR # 019-5146
Significant dates
Added to NRHP January 28, 2000
Designated VLR September 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 1-1/2 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

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 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


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