At the heart of this plantation in Bedford County, Virginia, Thomas Jefferson built his final, personal architectural masterpiece -- an octagonal house surrounded by an elaborate villa landscape.

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THE MONTICELLO ASSOCIATION The Monticello Graveyard Charlottesville, Virginia This graveyard had its beginning in an agreement between two young men, Thomas Jefferson and Dabney Carr, who were schoolmates and friends. They agreed that they would be buried under a great oak which stood here. Carr, who married Jefferson's sister, died in 1773. His was the first grave on this site, which Jefferson ...