The Zehmer Farm sits on the outskirts of the Town of McKenney in Dinwiddie County, and consists of a circa 1905 dwelling and 22 historic domestic and agricultural outbuildings, structures, and sites. The farm’s impressive collection of agricultural buildings include flue-cured tobacco barns, a dairy barn, milk houses, and silos, as well as structures for storage or for animals. Collectively the Zehmer Farm complex reflects the expansion and modernization typical of a property that has served agriculture uses—from timber farming, to tobacco cultivation and curing, to dairy farming—for more than a century. It has the distinction, however, of having been owned during that time by three generations of the Zehmer family, whose dairy operation lasted from 1905 until the early 1960s.