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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VY2_nursery-historical_Charlottesville-VA.html
This was the general site of the "old nursery," where Jefferson grafted and sowed the seed of special garden plants. He propagated thirteen kinds of shrubs, forty—one species of ornamental trees, twenty—six vegetable varieties, six kin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VV3_thomas-jefferson-historical_Charlottesville-VA.html
The greatest advocate of human liberty
Opposing special privileges
He loved and trusted The People
To commemorate his
Purchase of Louisiana
Erected by
The Jefferson Club
of St. Louis MO
on their pilgrimage Oct 12, 1901
to express the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M4K_thomas-jonathan-jackson-sculpture_Charlottesville-VA.html
Thomas Jonathan
Jackson
1824 1863
Chancellorsville · Manassas · The Valley Campaign
1919
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M4I_robert-edward-lee-sculpture_Charlottesville-VA.html
Robert Edward Lee
1807 - 1870
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JLK_history-underfoot_Charlottesville-VA.html
Traces of those who came before are all around us. This spot, for example, holds clues to the life of Catherine Foster, a free black seamstress and laundress, who purchased 2 1/8-acres here, in 1833, for herself and her family.
As this "reveal"…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JLI_shadow-catcher_Charlottesville-VA.html
At this place, on the site of Catherine Foster's home, this "shadow catcher" links the visible with the unseen even as it pulls the eyes upward to the sky. It creates a shadowy, gridlike outline of the house that once stood at this location.
Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JLH_burying-ground_Charlottesville-VA.html
The Foster family kept their ancestors close. Sheltered on a portion of their 2 1/8-acre plot purchased in 1833 by free black Catherine Foster, this burial ground still contains several dozen graves.
Rediscovered in 1993, the Foster cemetery mo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J6S_nail-making_Charlottesville-VA.html
Jefferson set up a nail-making operation in 1794 to provide income until he could "put my farms into a course of yeilding profit." He calculated the nailers' daily output, the waste of nailrod, and profits. In its first years, the "…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J6R_discovering-mulberry-row_Charlottesville-VA.html
Mulberry Row's buildings have all but disappeared—only the remains of four survive. Before re-creating lost buildings and roads, we look at information from many sources. How do we know about this important place and the history of its peopl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J6N_wood-trades_Charlottesville-VA.html
This chimney and foundation are all that remain of the "joiner's shop", of the first structures on Mulberry Row. From about 1775, free and enslaved workmen produced some of the finest woodwork in Virginia. Sawyers and carpenters felled o…