Four Locust Farm | |
Designated Other1: | Virginia Landmarks Register |
Designated Other1 Date: | September 17, 2009[1] |
Designated Other1 Number: | 019-5206 |
Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
Location: | U.S. Route 15, near Keysville, Virginia |
Coordinates: | 37.0583°N -78.4797°W |
Built: | c. |
Added: | December 3, 2009 |
Refnum: | 09001053 |
Four Locust Farm, also known as Pettus Dairy Farm, is a historic home and farm complex located near Keysville, Charlotte County, Virginia. The property includes a vernacular farm house dwelling, built around 1859, and a row of 20th-century farm buildings. The house is a two-story, three-bay-wide, frame dwelling that is covered by a low-pitched, hipped roof of standing-seam metal, and clad with weatherboards.
Farm buildings include frame and masonry dairy/hay barns, silos, a milk house, workshop, equipment sheds, cattle pens, and tenant houses. The farm produced tobacco from 1919 until 1925; beginning in 1925, the farm turned to dairy production with a 100-head Holstein-Friesian herd.
In 1962, the farm ended its dairy operations and turned to beef cattle production. The farm is now owned and operated by Pettus's grandson, Zach Tucker.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.