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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VSC_why-build-the-mounds-historical_Forest-VA.html
Thomas Jefferson's landscape design of house and mounds may have been influenced by Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio's five-part plan for a villa (left) — pavilion, hyphen, main block, hyphen, pavilion.
In his innovative design, Jef…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VSB_what-happened-to-poplar-forest-after-jeffersons-death-historical_Forest-VA.html
Francis Eppes inherited the house and 1,074 acres following his grandfather's death. His cousin Thomas Jefferson Randolph sold the remainder of the estate to cover debts. The Eppes, Cobbs, Hutter and Watts families who lived at Poplar Forest in th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VSA_why-is-the-lawn-sunken-historical_Forest-VA.html
Thomas Jefferson designed the sunken lawn to accommodate the lower level of the house and form an area similar to a plain parterre or bowling green. Enslaved laborers led by Phil Hubbard, working on their own time for pay, excavated the lawn and b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VS9_how-was-the-landscape-partitioned-historical_Forest-VA.html
About 200 feet north of this location, a fence marked the edge of the "curtilage." This sixty-one acre area separated the house and designed landscape from the larger plantation. In 1813, Jefferson noted that he had "inclosed and divided it into s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VS8_plantation-worker-housing-historical_Forest-VA.html
These two brick buildings, constructed in the mid-19th century by the Hutter family, served as housing for their plantation workers. Family recollections say that the northern building was a residence for the overseer, while the southern one was u…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VS7_commemorating-lewis-and-clark-historical_Forest-VA.html
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Commemorating Lewis and Clark
In 2003, surveyors placed a monument on the lawn northwest of the house to commemorate the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The brass survey disk bears the design of Jefferson's Indian Peace M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VS6_poplar-forest-planting-memorandum-1812-historical_Forest-VA.html
"Clump Of Athenian & Balsam poplars at each corner of the house
intermix locusts, common and Kentucky, redbuds, dogwoods,
calycanthus, liriodendron"
Poplar Forest Planting Memorandum 1812
Archaeologists discovered the remains of a Jeffer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18M5_callaway-steptoe-cemetery_Forest-VA.html
Nearby are buried several prominent area settlers and their descendants. Col. William Callaway, in 1755 one of the first two members of the Virginia House of Burgesses from Bedford County, donated the hundred acres of land on which the town of New…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18GB_new-london_Forest-VA.html
At New London, Patrick Henry made one of his most famous speeches. John Hook, a Tory, brought suit for two steers impressed for the American Army in 1781. Henry, the opposing counsel, so pictured the sufferings of the Patriots in that critical yea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11RC_new-london-academy_Forest-VA.html
Chartered by the state in 1795, this is the oldest secondary school in Virginia in continuous operation under its own charter. Conducted for many years as a private school for boys, it began to receive public funds in 1884. It now operates as a pu…