{"nrhp_refnum":"00000027","name":"Toombs Tobacco Farm","other_names":["DHR file no. 019-5146"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1125 Tates Mill Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Red Oak","county":"Charlotte County","state":"VA","lat":36.785595999000066,"lon":-78.59230837568217,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-01-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 128-acre tobacco farm near Red Oak in Charlotte County, Virginia, with a story-and-a-half wood frame house and a full set of farm and domestic outbuildings. The farm dates from about 1830 and most buildings were built after the Civil War.","why_significant":"The farm keeps its full set of outbuildings, including log tobacco barns, a packing house, smokehouse, chicken coop, servants' quarters and family cemetery. Together they show typical 19th and 20th century tobacco farming vernacular architecture in the region. The nomination also notes that the chill box ruins are rare and warrant further study.","narrative":"Set in the rolling countryside of Charlotte County, Virginia, this 128-acre tobacco farm near Red Oak centers on a story-and-a-half wood frame house with a circa 1910 rear wing and a 1989 addition. Around it stand a kitchen, cook's quarters, smokehouse, woodshed, chicken coop, garage, barns, a corncrib, a well, and a family cemetery with markers from 1911 into the 1980s. Two log tobacco barns, one wood-fired and one converted to bottled gas, and a frame packing house show how Bright Leaf tobacco was cured and stored. The Toombs family owned the land from the 1830s until 1981. The farm was listed for its vernacular architecture tied to tobacco growing. Its significance rests on the survival of nearly the whole working complex of buildings, structures and sites, which shows how a typical rural Virginia family farm evolved over roughly a century and a half. The ruined chill box beside Bluestone Creek is described as especially rare.","period_of_significance":"1830 - 1949","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current functions are listed as single dwelling (residence) and agriculture; the main house has had additions and alterations, including a circa 1910 rear wing and a 1989 addition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:59.934727-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/37/6800/41680037/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/00000027.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000027/26d84cb6fa-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000027/26d84cb6fa-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toombs_Tobacco_Farmhouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toombs_Tobacco_Farmhouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680037","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toombs_Tobacco_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713364"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/charlotte-county/toombs-tobacco-farm-00000027/"}