Leigh Farm

Leigh Farm
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The Leigh Home as it appeared c. 1837.
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Location	East of Chapel Hill off NC 54, near Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°55′19″N78°58′58″W / 35.92194°N 78.98278°W / 35.92194; -78.98278
Area	20 acres (8.1 ha)
Built	1834 (1834)
NRHP reference No.	75001257 [1]
Added to NRHP	September 5, 1975

The 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. "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 October 1, 2014.