Thomas Jefferson Country

Driving a country road with Lynn in Albemarle County, Virginia near Jefferson's Monticello
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My photo trip to Jefferson Country

A very large and very old tree on the James Monroe plantation in the same area

The plantation's peacock

Jefferson's Monticello in Charlottesville, Albemarle, Virginia (stock)

A Churchyard Cemetery in Albemarle County

Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia

The University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819, is the only university in the United States to be designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO

Jefferson set to work on building plans that would mirror his philosophical vision. For Jefferson, the college experience should take place within an "academical village," a place where shared learning infused daily life. Plans were developed for ten Pavilions—stately faculty homes with living quarters upstairs and classrooms downstairs—attached to two rows of student rooms and connected by an inward-facing colonnade. Each Pavilion was identified with a subject to be studied and inhabited by the professor who taught that subject.

At the head of the shared lawn would stand the library (not, as in most other colleges and universities of the time, a chapel), its dome shape inspired by Rome's Pantheon and symbolic of the enlightened human mind.

The Academical Village

Jefferson's library at the University of Virginia

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