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Monticello
Washington DC
Location: Route 53, (Exit 121, Interstate 64), Charlottesville,
VA
Monticello is the autobiographical masterpiece of Thomas
Jefferson, designed and redesigned and built and rebuilt for more than forty
years. It is the only US house listed on the United Nation's World Heritage List of sites
to be protected at all cost. Visitors will see many of the curious inventions designed
by Jefferson, the Renaissance man. Discover the library holdings of Jefferson, the
politician and statesman, and stroll through the green house and fruit, flower and
vegetable gardens of this avid horticulturalist.
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