Brooklyn Tobacco Factory

Brooklyn Tobacco Factory
Front and eastern side
Location Northern side of River Road, 0.25 mile east of the Jeremy Creek Road junction, at Brooklyn, Virginia
Coordinates 36°40′46″N 79°8′43″W / 36.67944°N 79.14528°W / 36.67944; -79.14528Coordinates: 36°40′46″N 79°8′43″W / 36.67944°N 79.14528°W / 36.67944; -79.14528
Area 3.9 acres (1.6 ha)
Built c. 1855 (1855)
Architect Dabney M. Crosby, Jr.
NRHP reference # 95001559[1]
VLR # 041-0259
Significant dates
Added to NRHP January 22, 1996
Designated VLR October 18, 1995[2]

Brooklyn Tobacco Factory, also known as the Hightower & Barksdale Tobacco Factory, is a historic tobacco factory located at Brooklyn, Halifax County, Virginia. It was built about 1855, and is a two-story, brick building with a gable roof. It features brick chimney flues projecting above the metal sheathed roof. Also on the property are two contributing pack houses (c. 1880) and the ruins of a log house (c. 1855). The factory was designed and built by Dabney Cosby, Jr., son of the Jeffersonian workman, Dabney Cosby, Sr. The factory remained in operation until 1881.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. J. Daniel Pezzoni (August 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Brooklyn Tobacco Factory" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
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