USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Monticello, “Little Mountain, ” was the home from 1770 until his death in 1826, of Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States. It is also an architectural masterpiece.

Detailed explanation-2: -Little Mountain In May 1768, the twenty-five-year-old Thomas Jefferson directed the leveling of the already gentle top of a 868-foot-high mountain, where he intended to build his home. He called it Monticello, which means “little mountain” in old Italian.

Detailed explanation-3: -Monticello is the autobiographical masterpiece of Thomas Jefferson-designed and redesigned and built and rebuilt for more than forty years-and its gardens were a botanic showpiece, a source of food, and an experimental laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world.

Detailed explanation-4: -Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, located in south-central Virginia, U.S., about 2 miles (3 km) southeast of Charlottesville. Constructed between 1768 and 1809, it is one of the finest examples of the early Classical Revival style in the United States.

Detailed explanation-5: -Since Monticello means “hillock” or “little mountain” in Italian, there is a logical explanation for Jefferson’s choice. Jefferson may have just translated the names of the two mountains as they appeared in the Albemarle County Deed Books-Little Mountain and High Mountain-into Italian.