Poplar Forest
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Poplar Forest is a plantation and retreat home in Forest, Virginia, United States, that belonged to Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and third U.S. president. Jefferson inherited the property in 1773
Poplar Forest, designed by Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Sully, 1821. This portrait is considered a truthful representation of Jefferson's appearance during the time which Poplar Forest was designed and constructed.
Poplar Forest in 2011
East elevation of Poplar Forest (2004)
Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson was a Founding Father and the third president of the United States, serving from 1801 to 1809. He was also the second vice president under John Adams from 1797 to 1801. A prolific wri
Poplar Forest
…Poplar Forest is a plantation and retreat home in Forest, Virginia, United States, that belonged to Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and third U.S. president. Jefferson inherited the property in 1773 and began designing and working on his retreat home in 1806. While…
Portrait, c. 1800
The Wren Building at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, where Jefferson studied in 1761 and 1762
Monticello, Jefferson's home near Charlottesville, Virginia
The Declaration of Independence, which Jefferson largely wrote in isolation between June 11 and 28, 1776, from a floor he was renting in a home at 700 Market Street in Center City Philadelphia, contain "the most potent and consequential words in American history," historian Joseph Ellis later wrote.