Leigh Farm
Leigh Farm is located in North Carolina
Leigh Farm
Leigh Farm is located in the United States
Leigh Farm
LocationEast of Chapel Hill off NC 54, near Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Coordinates35°55′19″N 78°58′58″W / 35.92194°N 78.98278°W / 35.92194; -78.98278
Area20 acres (8.1 ha)
Built1834 (1834)
NRHP reference No.75001257[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 5, 1975

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.[2]

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

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  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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