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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.
Monticello and its reflection Some of the gardens on the property. Monticello (/ ˌ m ɒ n t ɪ ˈ tʃ ɛ l oʊ / MON-tih-CHEL-oh) was the primary plantation of Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third president of the United States.
Monticello, 1768, Albemarle County — home of Thomas Jefferson; Montpelier, c. 1764, Orange County — home of James Madison and a National Trust Historic Site; Moor Green, 1815, Prince William County - home of Howson Hooe and a National and Virginia designated historic site.
Located just outside Charlottesville, Jefferson's Virginia home and estate is situated on the summit of an 850-foot (260 m)-high peak in the Southwest Mountains. Its name comes from the Italian for "little mountain." Jefferson began work on his original “Monticello” in 1768.
Hiller, Robert (1981), Jefferson's Shadwell Complex architectural history study for Prof. William Kelso, University of Virginia; Jefferson, Thomas (1999). Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book. Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation. ISBN 978-1-882886-10-4. Kern, Susan (2012-04-12). The Jeffersons at Shadwell. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-18743-4.
Peter Jefferson and his wife Jane Randolph Jefferson, Randolph's cousin, moved from Shadwell in Charlottesville to Tuckahoe Plantation with their three daughters and two-year-old son Thomas. The Jeffersons and Randolph children lived together in the H-shaped home until 1752. [ 14 ]
CHARLOTTSVILLE, Va. — Gardiner Hallock, Director of Restoration for Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop plantation, stood on a red-dirt floor inside a dusty rubble-stone room built in 1809.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.