Zehmer Farm Explained

Zehmer Farm
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:June 18, 2009[1]
Designated Other1 Number:257-2008
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:9818 Jack Zehmer Rd., McKenney, Virginia
Coordinates:36.9844°N -77.7289°W
Architecture:Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals
Added:September 30, 2009
Refnum:09000793

Zehmer Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near McKenney, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. The farmhouse was built about 1905, and is a one-story, frame L-shaped dwelling with a broad hipped roof and wings added to both sides. Also on the property are a collection of outbuildings and farm structures – including animal shelters, corn crib, flue-cured tobacco barns, dairy barn and milk houses, and the sites of tenant houses, a butcher house, fire-cured tobacco barns and a sawmill.[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: Zehmer Farm . John G. Zehmer, Jr.. March 2009. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying four photos