Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville 世界遗产

Monticello ( MON-tih-CHEL-oh) was the primary residence and plantation of Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third president of the United States. Jefferson began designing Monticello after inheriting land from his father at the age of 14. Located just outside Charlottesville, Virginia, in the Piedmont region, the plantation was originally 5,000 acres (20 km2), with Jefferson using the forced labor of enslaved black people for extensive cultivation of tobacco and mixed crops, later shifting from tobacco cultivation to wheat in response to ch……

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所在国家 / 地区

美国

坐标

北纬 38.03°，西经 78.50°

遗产类型

文化遗产

入选标准

(i)、(iv)、(vi)

遗产编号

442