Leigh Farm

Leigh Farm
Location East of Chapel Hill off NC 54, near Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°55′19″N 78°58′58″W / 35.92194°N 78.98278°W / 35.92194; -78.98278Coordinates: 35°55′19″N 78°58′58″W / 35.92194°N 78.98278°W / 35.92194; -78.98278
Area 20 acres (8.1 ha)
Built 1834 (1834)
NRHP Reference # 75001257[1]
Added to NRHP September 5, 1975

Leigh Farm is a historic home and farm 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.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. John Baxton Flowers, III; Catherine W. Cockshutt (July 1975). "Leigh Farm" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.


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