Virginia Department of Historic Resources Virginia Department of Historic Resources
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VLR Listing Date 12/19/1978
NRHP Listing Date 05/21/1979
NRHP Reference Number 79003054
Delisted from VLR on 03/19/1997
Delisted from NRHP on 03/19/2001
An impressive relic of the antebellum tobacco industry, the three-and-one-half-story Moss Tobacco Factory was erected in two stages during the 1830s. It housed a manufacturing operation until 1862. After the Civil War, bankruptcy necessitated the sale of the property. The factory continued as a tobacco warehouse until the Virginia Southside market became concentrated in Danville. The vacant building was conspicuously sited on Main Street (now Virginia Avenue) in Clarksville in Mecklenburg County. Its future uncertain at the time of its listing in the registers, the building was demolished at the direction of the property owner in 1980.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
Updated: February 23, 2021
