Thursday, July 5, 2018 -- A new exhibit at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop home hear Charlottesville, Va., underscores the fact that the Jefferson estate was an epicenter of racial mixing ...
Moving boxes have started accumulating in the blue colonial home that stands in a grove of trees near Monticello. The charming dwelling has been home to Dan Jordan and his wife, Lou, since 1985, when ...
Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello is seeking to “Embrace the Climb” with a 10-year strategic plan that has been two years in the making. The vision’s name is taken from a quote from Jefferson in 1786: ...
University of Virginia students have plenty of reasons for not having visited Monticello, the home of UVA founder Thomas Jefferson. Perhaps they grew up far away, or their families never quite made it ...
Retired Magistrate Judge James Cott recounts a tour he recently took at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home in Charlottesville, Virginia, which focused on the relationship between Jefferson and John ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The room where historians believe Sally Hemings slept was just steps away from Thomas Jefferson's bedroom. But in 1941, the caretakers of Monticello turned it into a restroom.
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I Followed the Monticello Wine Trail in Charlottesville Virginia – Here’s What I Learned
Did you know that Virginia has one of the most exciting and innovative wine scenes in the world today? I didn’t either until I visited lovely Charlottesville and its Monticello Wine Trail. The first ...
It’s a well-known story. In April of 1775, an American patriot receives intelligence communicated by lantern light and travels on horseback from Charlestown to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn his ...
For four decades, Jefferson kept meticulous records of every dollar he spent and the activities of the people he held as slaves — the fee for hiring a midwife to birth an enslaved woman’s child, the ...
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