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This old home has been around for a while. Do you recognize it? This is the front of the home. Perhaps a different view will help...
This is the rear of the home. I suppose it looks very familiar to all of us here in the United States. If you are here in America and it still doesn't ring a bell, get a nickel out and look at the back lol.
Of course this is Monticello.
Thomas Jefferson designed it, had it built, lived in it, and is buried on the grounds.
It was Jefferson's mountain top estate and it literally sit at the top of a mountain that is accessible with these narrow winding and steep roads.
It is located in Charlottesville Virginia. Being on the top of a mountain, it certainly offers some lovely views.
Sadly, I think it is important to remember that Monticello ran off of slave labor. Obviously their quarters were not quite as nice.
Yes I know some folks were not enamored with the grain I employed last week, so this week I have toned it down, except in this shot.
It is too bad that cameras are not allowed inside Monticello.
As it happens with many types of tourist attractions, I enjoyed seeing it, but once was probably enough. There are so many historical and interesting things to see in that area of Virginia, I am sure I will be plenty busy bloging from a bunch of them :)...
At least I hope it will be warm there whenever I get out of this ice cube of a state! 45F outside and was 36 last night. I think the sudden change of weather has triggered me to do a rant video lol.
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Haha yah! What a great piece of history there!
Cheers buddy.
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Yes, I can relate, I keep wanting to see "The Hermitage," Andrew Jackson's domicile just outside of Nashville, but so far haven't managed to make myself do so.
Slave labor is part of it, but in Jackson's case, for me, it is far more his role in perpetrating the Trail of Tears, when "relocating" the Cherokee fro their native lands in Tennessee, Georgia and the Carolinas. A sad part of our shared history.
Monticello is one I have yet to visit, though I definitely plan to do so one day.
I did make it to Mt. Vernon, some years back, and was enthralled by the gardens and the greenhouse, being quite interested in the heritage crops grown at that time. And I absolutely loved his circular barn.
Estate is lovely in sepia. I like the way the slave quarters turned out.