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3 days ago · America’s third president Thomas Jefferson worked on his Virginia plantation home, Monticello, for 40 years, but this modernized replica in Somers, Connecticut took just 14 months to build....
2 days ago · Monticello, Jefferson's home near Charlottesville, Virginia. In 1768, Jefferson began constructing his primary residence, Monticello, whose name in Italian means "Little Mountain", on a hilltop overlooking his 5,000-acre (20 km 2; 7.8 sq mi) plantation.
9 hours ago · Sally Hemings was the half-sister of Martha Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson's wife. At the age of 14, she accompanied Jefferson's daughter to Paris, where Jefferson was serving as the U.S. Minister to France. In France, Hemings had the legal right to freedom but chose to return to Virginia with Jefferson under certain conditions. Life at Monticello
1 day ago · History MA student, Foster Davis, interns at Monticello. This summer, from May 13 to August 5, I was employed as an intern for the Education and Visitor Programs department of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. In other words; this summer, I was a tour guide at Monticello. Tours of Monticello make their way through, what was, the home of Thomas ...
1 day ago · Every wine trip needs a home base, ... Jefferson established two vineyards on his Monticello estate and cofounded Virginia’s first commercial wine company. Adjacent to the portrait, a placard ...
3 days ago · Video: Buyer of replica of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello mansion which finally sold at auction for $2.1million is a history buff like the home's first owner... but he's NEVER even seen the real...
1 day ago · At Monticello, Jefferson installed dumbwaiters on either side of the fireplace mantle in his dining room. Operated on weights and pulleys, these were sized for wine bottles and could speedily ...
