Monticello

Charlottesville

Monticello in Charlottesville

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QUICK FACTS

LINKS

SITE: Monticello
SITE: Virginia.org

BOOKS

Jack McGlaughlin, Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder (1988).

OTHER PLACES TO VISIT

Poplar Forest
University of Virginia
Virginia State Capitol

LOCATION

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Thomas Jefferson’s plantation and home which he designed, built, and rebuilt over 50 years.

Associated People

Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense (1775), urging the colonies to declare their independence, found 150,000 purchasers in a population of less than 3 million — the equivalent today of a sale of 14 million.

— Richard Brookhiser

Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution (2003)