Hampton-Ellis Farm

3305 Pat Tilley Rd., Bahama, North Carolina. County/parish: Durham.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 22, 2011. NRIS 11000955.

14 contributing buildings.

Also known as:

  • Jonah Ellis Farm
  • William Beanis Hampton Farm

From Wikipedia:

Hampton–Ellis Farm

Hampton–Ellis Farm, also known as William Beanis Hampton Farm and Jonah Ellis Farm, is a historic home and tobacco farm located near Bahama, Durham County, North Carolina. The farmhouse was built about 1900, as a one-story, three-bay, center hall plan dwelling. It was enlarged about 1922, with the addition of a kitchen ell. The house features a one-story, hip-roofed front porch. Contributing outbuildings include the wood shed, cannery, smokehouse, feed house, tenant house, tenant smokehouse, tenant woodshed, pack house, ordering/stripping house, and four tobacco barns. With the exception of the ordering/stripping house and three of the tobacco barns, all the outbuildings were built about 1922.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720046