Meekins Barn

National Register Listing

Street Address:

Off SC 9, Floydale, SC, City vicinity (Dillon County)

---

NRHP Nomination

Record Number:

S10817717012

Description and Narrative:

The Meekins Barn, which is believed to have been constructed before 1935, is significant as an unusually intact example of a log tobacco barn. This method of construction was used in Marion and Dillon Counties for flue-cured barns from the 1890s until the 1950s. The Meekins Barn is a large, five -“room” log barn with a metal-covered gable roof. Square wood posts support a metal shed roof on the façade. There is an arched firebox on the left elevation. The firebox supplied the heat for curing, the heat carried in metal flues through the lower part of the barn’s interior, hence the name flue-cured. There is a wood plank door on the façade and rear elevation. The foundation is brick, but has been reinforced by concrete along the façade. Weatherboard has been added between the logs. The gable ends are also weatherboarded. Listed in the National Register August 3, 1984.

Period of Significance:

before 1935

Level of Significance:

State

Area of Significance:

Architecture

National Register Determination:

listed

Date of Certification:

August 3 1984

---