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ADDRESS: 931 Thomas Jefferson Parkway Charlottesville, VA 22902 GENERAL INFORMATION: (434) 984-9800
ADDRESS: 931 Thomas Jefferson Parkway Charlottesville, VA 22902 GENERAL INFORMATION: (434) 984-9800
The book section offers more than 250 titles—including one of the most comprehensive selections of Jefferson-related books available anywhere—and comfortable reading chairs. Other departments of the store contain exclusive Monticello reproductions, educational games and toys, home décor pieces, Virginia wines, gourmet food products ...
Apr 28, 2011 · Plantation Archaeology Walking Tour. Meets at Monticello's David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center. 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Archaeology, Tour. Join Monticello staff for a 90-minute walking tour into the woodlands to explore how we use archaeology to better understand the plantation and the lives of those who lived and labored here.
House & Gardens. Monticello is the autobiographical masterpiece of Thomas Jefferson—designed and redesigned and built and rebuilt for more than forty years. Its gardens were a botanic showpiece, a source of food, and an experimental laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world.
In May 1768, the twenty-five-year-old Thomas Jefferson directed the leveling of the already gentle top of a 868-foot-high mountain, where he intended to build his home. He called it Monticello, which means "little mountain" in old Italian. The First Monticello. As early as 1790, Jefferson began planning revisions for his Albemarle County home ...
ADDRESS: 931 Thomas Jefferson Parkway Charlottesville, VA 22902 GENERAL INFORMATION: (434) 984-9800
