Toombs Tobacco Farm Explained

Toombs Tobacco Farm
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:September 15, 1999[1]
Designated Other1 Number:019-5146
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Coordinates:36.7844°N -78.5933°W
Built:c.
Architecture:Federal
Added:January 28, 2000
Refnum:00000027

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 -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.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm. 21 September 2013.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Toombs Tobacco Farm. Department of Historic Resources Staff. n.d.. Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission. and Accompanying photo