Four Locust Farm Explained

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Four Locust Farm. Debra A. McClane. June 2009. Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission. and Accompanying five photos