Leigh Farm Explained

Leigh Farm
Location:East of Chapel Hill off NC 54, near Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.9219°N -78.9828°W
Added:September 5, 1975
Refnum:75001257

Leigh Farm is a historic home and plantation 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.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: John Baxton Flowers, III . Catherine W. Cockshutt . Leigh Farm. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . July 1975. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-10-01.