Winston, Obediah, Farm

Obediah Winston Farm is a 38-acre tobacco farm along State Road 1638 near Creedmoor. Its centerpiece is a two-story, one-room-deep timber frame house with beaded weatherboards, built probably in the 1850s by Obediah and Permelia Bullock Winston. The Greek Revival finish includes octagonal porch columns, six-over-six windows, two-panel doors and post-and-lintel mantels. The plan is unusual for the county, which favored center-hall I-houses. East of the house stands a square-notched log building that was probably a slave house and may have served as a kitchen. Census records show the family's land value and slave holdings rising sharply between 1850 and 1860. Later outbuildings include a packhouse, tobacco barn, stable, smokehouse, potato house and tenant house, which reflect bright leaf tobacco farming after the Civil War. The farm stayed in the Winston family until 1962. A marker memorializes the family graves, now plowed under.