Published On May 17, 2017
Join Leslie Greene Bowman, President emerita of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, on horseback as she retraces Jefferson's daily ride around his Monticello plantation.
Image Credits
• “From Edgehill the Residence of Col. Jefferson Randolph” by Russell Smith, 1844. Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello.
• “Cutting Timber, Virginia, 1850s” by Lewis Miller, 1853-1867. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
• “Monticello: mountaintop (plat) by Thomas Jefferson, 1806.” Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts, Massachusetts Historical Society
• “Monticello: mountaintop (plat) by Thomas Jefferson, 1809.” Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts, Massachusetts Historical Society
• “View from Monticello Looking Towards Charlottesville” by Jane Braddick Peticolas, 1825.
Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello
• “Jefferson's mill at Shadwell” by Ben John Lossing, undated. New York Public Library Digital Collections.
• "Culpepper, Va.--Stacking wheat" by Edwin Forbes, 1863. Library of Congress
• "An Overseer Doing His Duty near Fredericksburg, Virginia" by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, ca. 1798. Maryland Historical Society
• “Farm Book, 1774-1824, page 46, by Thomas Jefferson.” Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts, Massachusetts Historical Society
• “Slaves Harvesting Wheat”. © John W. Jones, Artist and Author of the book and exhibition, “Confederate Currency: The Color of Money, Images of Slavery in Confederate and Southern States Currency and Beyond.” www.colorsofmoney.com
• “3D models of slave dwellings and ‘Franklin’s Barn’” by RenderSphere, LLC, Richmond, VA