Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate and the neighboring Michie Tavern are a must-do day trip in the Charlottesville area.

America’s third president Thomas Jefferson worked on his Virginia plantation home, Monticello, for 40 years, but this modernized replica in Somers, Connecticut took just 14 months to build. The ...

Retired Magistrate Judge James Cott recounts a tour he recently took at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home in ...

Thursday, July 5, 2018 -- A new exhibit at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop home hear Charlottesville, Va., underscores the fact that the Jefferson estate was an epicenter of racial mixing ...

Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello is seeking to “Embrace the Climb” with a 10-year strategic plan that has been two years in the making. The vision’s name is taken from a quote from Jefferson in 1786: ...

Moving boxes have started accumulating in the blue colonial home that stands in a grove of trees near Monticello. The charming dwelling has been home to Dan Jordan and his wife, Lou, since 1985, when ...

It’s a well-known story. In April of 1775, an American patriot receives intelligence communicated by lantern light and travels on horseback from Charlestown to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn his ...

Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello was hit by a ransomware attack this week that knocked out the historic home’s electronic systems. The attack was discovered Tuesday, and since then Monticello has not ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The room where historians believe Sally Hemings slept was just steps away from Thomas Jefferson's bedroom. But in 1941, the caretakers of Monticello turned it into a restroom.

For four decades, Jefferson kept meticulous records of every dollar he spent and the activities of the people he held as slaves — the fee for hiring a midwife to birth an enslaved woman’s child, the ...