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A Private Place
An introduction by Lynn A. Beebe, Executive Director
Jefferson Chronology
A Retreat
Thomas Jefferson and Poplar Forest - Who Was Thomas Jefferson? - Visitors at
Monticello - The Idea of the Villa - The Genesis of an Idea
The House
Designing and Building the Poplar Forest Residence - Jefferson's Approach to
Architecture - Geometry - Floor Plan - Architectural Detail - Practical
Concessions - The Wing of Offices - French Details - How Was Poplar Forest
Built? - Bricks - John and Reuben Perry - John Hemmings - Obtaining Materials
- Repairs
The Landscape
Gardening at Poplar Forest - Curtilage - Palladian Landscape - Natural and
Rational - The North Entrance - The South Lawn - Archaeological Discoveries -
Plantings for the Sunken Lawn - The Vegetable Garden - Reality Intrudes
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Daily Life
Jefferson, Family, and Friends at Poplar Forest - Reading and Writing - Family
- Ellen and Cornelia Randolph - Maintaining the House - Social Life - Food -
Furnishings - Travel
The Plantation
Work and Slavery at Poplar Forest - Farms - Enslaved Workers - Overseers -
Headmen - Crops - Self-Sufficiency - Weaving and Spinning - Other Work - The
Wagon - Income - Resistance - Enslaved Families - Personal Belongings -
Clothing - Food and Medicine - Jefferson's Attitudes about Slavery
After Jefferson
Other Families at Poplar Forest - Cobbs-Hutter - Later Owners - The Rescue -
Stabilizations and Research - Restoration - Archaeology - Excavation of the
Wing of Offices and Kitchen Yard - Computer Mapping and Lab Analysis - Poplar
Forest Today - The Visitor Experience - Involvement
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
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