{"nrhp_refnum":"09000793","name":"Zehmer Farm","other_names":["Dhr#257-5008"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"9818 Jack Zehmer Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"McKenney","county":"Dinwiddie County","state":"VA","lat":36.982762320000035,"lon":-77.73787525967717,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-09-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 309-acre farm district near McKenney in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, centered on a one-story frame farmhouse finished about 1905 by Charles G. Zehmer, with 22 other resources including barns, silos, milk houses, fields and sites of vanished buildings.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is significant under Criterion C for its intact collection of agricultural architecture. The house is a good example of an early 20th century vernacular dwelling, and the outbuildings document tobacco, timber and dairy farming in Dinwiddie County from 1905 to about 1960. It is described as an unusually complete farmstead from the era before agricultural specialization.","narrative":"Zehmer Farm is a 309-acre working landscape on the edge of McKenney in southern Dinwiddie County, Virginia. Its core is a one-story, L-shaped frame farmhouse begun after 1901 and finished about 1905 by Charles G. Zehmer, around which a farmstead grew over three generations of his family. The surviving buildings include a smoke house, pump house, mule barn, corn crib, two log flue-cured tobacco barns, a dairy barn, milk houses and silos, along with a long-used vegetable garden, fields and woodland. The sites of tenant houses, fire-cured tobacco barns, a butcher house and sawmills are also counted. Together they record the shift from timber and tobacco to dairy and cattle farming between 1905 and about 1960. The property was recognized for its architecture because the buildings form an unusually intact and complete example of an early twentieth-century tobacco and dairy farm in the county, at a time when surrounding land is steadily being developed.","period_of_significance":"1905 - 1960","architect_builder":"Unknown","architectural_style":"Late 19th/Early 20th century Revivals","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The farmhouse and outbuildings are described as well preserved. The pastures are rented for beef cattle and the secondary buildings are used to store hay and machinery.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.6707-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/5/6804/41680405/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/09000793.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000793/24f403c683-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000793/24f403c683-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jerrye &amp; Roy Klotz, MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ZEHMER_FARM,_DINWIDDIE_COUNTY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerrye &amp;amp; Roy Klotz, MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ZEHMER_FARM,_DINWIDDIE_COUNTY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680405","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zehmer_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14713577"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/dinwiddie-county/zehmer-farm-09000793/"}