Monticello

During our trip down Skyline Drive and the Shenandoah Valley, we went to Monticello.
Monticello is the home of the 3rd President of the United States of America, Thomas Jefferson.

	"Mulberry Row This 1,000-foot-long road was the center of the plantation activity at Monticello from the 1770s until Jefferson's death in 1826.  It once was lined with the dependencies necessary to support  the main house and a 5,000-acre plantation  with as many as 150 residents.  In 1796 there  were seventeen structures on Mulberry Row,  including dwellings for white and black  workmen, wood and ironworking shops, a  smokehouse-dairy, a wash house, storehouse,  and a stable."
This is the front of Monticello.  Jefferson was a big weather watcher, so he had a weathervane placed on top of the house.  On the ceiling of the porch, there is a dark circle.  That is where the weathervane's pointer is to tell you the direction of the wind.  That way, you didn't need to go into the yard to look at the weathervane to get the wind direction..
Thomas Jefferson was also a big horticulturist.
Monticello, as seen on a nickel. (This view is from the back.)	Monticello
Monticello	Monticello
	Thomas Jefferson's grave
"This graveyard plot is the private property of Thomas Jefferson's descendants.