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Toombs Tobacco Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Red Oak, Charlotte County, Virginia, USA.Contributing resources include the main residence, summer kitchen, family cemetery, tobacco barns, smoke house, animal pens and other ancillary structures.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
The Danville Tobacco Warehouse and Residential District is a national historic district located at Danville, Virginia. The district includes 532 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 2 contributing structures in the city of Danville. The district reflects the late-19th century and early-20th development of Danville as a tobacco ...
In 1967, the 1,700-acre (6.9 km2) plantation was donated to the Commonwealth of Virginia by Mrs. Victor Stewart for use as Chippokes State Park. One of the oldest working farms in the nation, Chippokes has kept its boundaries since the 17th century.
Buckshoal Farm is a historic home and tobacco farm located near Omega in Halifax County, Virginia.Typical of early homes in the area, which were expanded in various architectural styles during the previous 150 years, it is best known as the birthplace, favorite retreat and eventual death location of Virginia Governor and later U.S. Congressman William M. Tuck, who called it by this name (after ...
The development of tobacco as an export began in Virginia in 1614 when one of the English colonists, John Rolfe, experimented with a plant he had brought from the West Indies, 'Nicotania tabacum. In the same year, the first tobacco shipment was sent to England. The British prized tobacco, for it was a way to display one's wealth to the public.
The farm provided corn, wheat, rye, and barley for the Monticello plantation. [1] [5] While he was president (1801–1809), Jefferson leased the farm to John Craven, who grew tobacco. [2] Jefferson's grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, managed the farm beginning in 1817. [1] That year, Randolph added a stone wing to the log cabin.
The house dates to the late-19th century, and is a one-story, two-room-plan frame structure with gable roof. Also on the property are the contributing five log tobacco barns, a frame pack house, a log strip house, a log cabin, a smokehouse, a corn crib, and a commissary. [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. [1]