Elijah Sherman Farm

Elijah Sherman Farm
Location US 158, near Berea, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°19′46″N 78°46′47″W / 36.32944°N 78.77972°W / 36.32944; -78.77972Coordinates: 36°19′46″N 78°46′47″W / 36.32944°N 78.77972°W / 36.32944; -78.77972
Area 25 acres (10 ha)
Built 1887 (1887)
Architectural style I-house
MPS Granville County MPS
NRHP Reference # 88001256[1]
Added to NRHP August 31, 1988

Elijah Sherman Farm is a historic tobacco farm complex and national historic district located near Berea, Granville County, North Carolina. The farmhouse was built about 1887, and is a two-story, three bay, frame I-house, with a one-story full facade porch. Also on the property are two log corn cribs, stone well, two garage/sheds, a privy, smokehouse, woodhouse, corn crib, washhouse, stable, packhouse, striphouse, four tobacco barns, and a family cemetery.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Marvin A. Brown and Patricia Esperon (November 1987). "Elijah Sherman Farm" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-11-01.


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