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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21A0_d-day-monument-a-war-memorial_Bedford-VA.html
This monument's representation of these distinct phases of the events around D-Day is particularly evident from this position. In the distance straight ahead, a formal garden planted in the design of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YZ3_smith-mountain-lake_Huddleston-VA.html
Appalachian Power Company constructed Smith
Mountain and Leesville Dams between 1960 and
1963 to generate hydroelectric energy. The waters
of the Roanoke and Blackwater Rivers formed Smith
Mountain Lake, one of two resulting reservoirs,
which…
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/HM1T4Y_apple-orchard-mtn-historical_Bedford-VA.html
The parkway reaches its highest elevation in Virginia - - 3950 - - on Apple Orchard Mountain. Wind, ice and snow of raging winter storms have pruned this mountaintop forest, giving it an "Old Apple Orchard" appearance. This "orchard…