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The owners and operators of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate want next year's Fourth of July, the 250th, more powerful than a party.
On sunny days, a young Thomas Jefferson would ride a horse to the high point of his father's 2023-hectare plantation and ...
A new documentary screened at the Charlottesville Tom Tom Festival shows "education literally is the thing that keeps people ...
A food co-op in Charlottesville's Fifeville neighborhood, recently recognized as a food desert, is a step closer to fruition ...
At 50 years old, he was eager to return to his beloved Virginia estate to live as a gentleman ... the Harvard scholar and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy ...
Sustaining the energy of new ideas is an important aspect of the ongoing American experiment. Next year is the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the document ...
The room where President James Monroe crafted part of his famed doctrine exudes a quiet, stately atmosphere. Inside the enclosed west porch a few footsteps away, a quarried-stone floor marked by ...
Ronald Hermann's wife and their two children have sued his son, David Herrmann, over management of the family's assets.
The wealthy owners of Staatsburgh, a historic Gilded Age mansion outside New York City, had tickets for the Titanic's second ...
Scott Bessent, the 62-year-old treasury secretary, has quickly become one of the president’s most effective communicators.
The four-bedroom, three-bathroom house in the preserved Quaker village comes with a stone cottage and greenhouse.
The Charlotte Museum of History is throwing the Charlotte Gem Preservation Awards, a fundraising event May 8 that will honor restoration and building projects that show off historic preservation ...