USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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.

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: -Jefferson is perhaps best known for his homes-Monticello, in Albemarle County, and Poplar Forest, in Bedford County-which became laboratories for Jefferson’s design interests and his many influences.