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Poplar Forest is a plantation and retreat home in Forest, Virginia, United States, that belonged to Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and third U.S. president.Jefferson inherited the property in 1773 and began designing and working on his retreat home in 1806.
Poplar Forest became the only Jefferson property to pass to his intended heir. Jefferson's debts disrupted the rest of his bequests after his death in 1826. Moreover, Eppes found Poplar Forest isolated, and was ready to try his fortunes elsewhere. Florida, then a territory, was being rapidly developed for cotton production.
Populus is a genus of 25–30 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere.English names variously applied to different species include poplar (/ ˈ p ɒ p l ər /), aspen, and cottonwood.
The earliest and most notable octagon house in the Americas was Thomas Jefferson's 1806 Poplar Forest. Orson Squire Fowler's 1848 book The Octagon House, A Home for All and his "monumental" four-story, 60-room house built during 1848–1853, Fowler's Folly in Fishkill, New York, provided inspiration for a nationwide fad. [1]
John Hemmings (also spelled Hemings) (1776 – 1833) was an American woodworker.Born into slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello as a member of the large mixed-race Hemings family, he trained in the Monticello Joinery and became a highly skilled carpenter and woodworker, making furniture and crafting the fine woodwork of the interiors at Monticello and Poplar Forest.
Liriodendron tulipifera—known as the tulip tree, [a] American tulip tree, tulipwood, tuliptree, tulip poplar, whitewood, fiddletree, lynn-tree, hickory-poplar, and yellow-poplar—is the North American representative of the two-species genus Liriodendron (the other member is Liriodendron chinense).
Poplar Forest, a historic home once owned by Thomas Jefferson, in Forest, Virginia, U.S. Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Poplar Grove .
Most frequently, he traveled with Burwell Colbert, his enslaved manservant who is the only individual to come to Poplar Forest on every visit Jefferson made. Israel and Gil Gillette, two enslaved men, drove the carriage and act as postilion when he traveled. –CaroleHenson 21:43, 30 August 2023 (UTC)