DirectionsFrom the South and East I-95 exit 81 at Benson towards Raleigh on route #40 for 27 miles to Outer Loop #440 for 7 miles to US #1 heading North. Drive 40 miles and when you see the express road I-85 on your left along side of you watch for the sign to Fleming Road (also called Flemingtown). Turn left under the highway and go 1.5 miles to Tobacco Farm Camp on your right.
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From Atlanta Take I-85 425.7 miles (measured from Capital Square SW and Mitchell St SW) to exit #220 - Fleming Road (also called Flemingtown). Turn RIGHT onto US-1 / US-158 and turn RIGHT again following the signs for Fleming Road (also called Flemingtown) and the truck stop going under the overhead highway. You will find Tobacco Farm Camp 1.5 miles on your right.
From the WestTake I-40 west to Greensboro and merge on I-85. Travel North 57 miles to exit #220 Fleming Road (also called Flemingtown). Turn RIGHT onto US-1 / US-158 and turn RIGHT again following the signs for Fleming Road (also called Flemingtown) and the truck stop going under the overhead highway. You will find Tobacco Farm Camp 1.5 miles on your right. From the NorthTake I-95 south to Petersburg, VA exit #51 and merge on I-85. Travel South 82 miles to exit #220 Fleming Road (also called Flemingtown). Turn right and drive 1.5 miles to Tobacco Farm Camp on your right. |
Meet Your Hosts
Shirley Payne Schambach was destined to be an innkeeper. She says, “When you have lived a long life, you can have the opportunity to explore many experiences”. Shirley has worked in so many different areas that have all enhanced her life and directed her towards inn keeping. Her art background includes interior decorating, painting abstracts and landscapes and dress designing. She loves creating theme rooms, interesting flower gardens and turning each of the 15 buildings into fun and utile venues.
Born in a small town of 100 people in South Dakota, the family moved to Shenandoah, Iowa while Shirley was still a child. During college years she spent many summers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Florida to work in food service and as a chambermaid. Experience in several levels of food preparation and service have served her well. After selling real estate in Ft Lauderdale for 38 years, Shirley was looking for a less stressful lifestyle. The tobacco farm came up on her internet searches and she fell in love with the 100 feet of wrap around porch. Marketing and bookkeeping and financial planning gained during those years was vital to her new business.
When Shirley purchased the house, the log buildings in the back looked interesting but she had no idea that they would become so important to the overall picture and income of the property. The Lamplight Inn, a country Bed and Breakfast was opened in September 2002 and in 2003 she opened Tobacco Farm Camp on the rear of the farm. The camp ground has 2 cabins, that were once tobacco curing barns, and RV sites. Travelers, hunters, fishermen, all love the quiet atmosphere and space for trucks, boats, etc on the farm. The most interesting building is one of the curing barns that has been transformed into a mini-museum demonstrating how tobacco was cured back in the wood firing days.
In 2011, Gary Schambach added hosting to his resume when he joined Shirley on the farm. March 2020 and a pandemic marked the end of breakfast service. Since then the property has gradually transformed and the Lamplight Inn evolved into a vacation rental we lovingly call the Country Manor. When you visit Tobacco Farm Camp and the Country Manor, you will find two gracious hosts who love to share the history of this place and the area.
Born in a small town of 100 people in South Dakota, the family moved to Shenandoah, Iowa while Shirley was still a child. During college years she spent many summers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Florida to work in food service and as a chambermaid. Experience in several levels of food preparation and service have served her well. After selling real estate in Ft Lauderdale for 38 years, Shirley was looking for a less stressful lifestyle. The tobacco farm came up on her internet searches and she fell in love with the 100 feet of wrap around porch. Marketing and bookkeeping and financial planning gained during those years was vital to her new business.
When Shirley purchased the house, the log buildings in the back looked interesting but she had no idea that they would become so important to the overall picture and income of the property. The Lamplight Inn, a country Bed and Breakfast was opened in September 2002 and in 2003 she opened Tobacco Farm Camp on the rear of the farm. The camp ground has 2 cabins, that were once tobacco curing barns, and RV sites. Travelers, hunters, fishermen, all love the quiet atmosphere and space for trucks, boats, etc on the farm. The most interesting building is one of the curing barns that has been transformed into a mini-museum demonstrating how tobacco was cured back in the wood firing days.
In 2011, Gary Schambach added hosting to his resume when he joined Shirley on the farm. March 2020 and a pandemic marked the end of breakfast service. Since then the property has gradually transformed and the Lamplight Inn evolved into a vacation rental we lovingly call the Country Manor. When you visit Tobacco Farm Camp and the Country Manor, you will find two gracious hosts who love to share the history of this place and the area.
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At the Lamplight Inn
-by Donna Milliner Thank you, Lord, for respite, Blessed pause from hectic pace; A night of sleep in Scarlet’s room In Lamplight’s country place – An antique-furnished, quaint, old inn With farmlands all around; Where aged trees glad’ give their shade To porch and birds and ground– Where squirrels skitter and gray doves coo, And limbs sway in the breeze; Their shadows dance in sunlight And curtsy to the leaves. “If walls could talk,” the old cliché Can’t help but come to mind, As floor boards creak and ceilings rise I’m taken back in time. |
Porcelain dolls and photographs, The shelves of cobalt glass, Well-worn books and keepsakes– Hold mem’ries of the past.Kind fireplace and vintage lamps Soft’ light each quiet space; Warm quilts, fringed rugs, and velvet drapes Bring ambience and grace Where one can sigh, then deeply breathe The sweet, transcendent calm; And know the silence of this time Will be a healing balm. Donna stayed at Lamplight Inn, a country Bed and Breakfast while saying goodbye to a dear friend. Her visit in the Gone With the Wind Room inspired the english teacher/editor to write this glorious poem. |
