Tag: American history

James & Heather Visit Monticello

Carol 16 Comments

James, my nephew, and his wife, Heather, took a little vacation before school started. They’re both teachers and love history. James is currently teaching world history in a high school. Last week they went to visit Monticello. Photos are shared by James and Heather. Thank you! (I visited it in the mid-1970’s, and you do NOT want to see my photos from my little Kodak!)

Let’s take a step into the fascinating and complex world of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s mountaintop home in Charlottesville, Virginia. Monticello is the autobiographical masterpiece of Thomas Jefferson—designed and redesigned and built and rebuilt for more than forty years. Its gardens were a botanic showpiece, a source of food, and an experimental laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world. Jefferson, the third president of the United States, is pictured on the USA nickel, and Monticello is on the back.

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A Visit to Greenfield Village & America’s Ingenuity

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Greenfield Village

Henry Ford Museum

20900 Oakwood Blvd, at The Henry Ford, Dearborn, MI 48124-4088

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Henry Ford said of his museum:

I am collecting the history of our people as written into things their hands made and used…. When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived, and that, I think, is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition…

 

The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation and Greenfield Village is a large indoor and outdoor history museum complex and a National Historic Landmark in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan. The Henry Ford Museum opened in 1929. It is based on Henry Ford’s efforts to preserve items of historical interest and portray the Industrial Revolution with the property, homes, machinery, exhibits, and Americana of historically significant items as well as common memorabilia. It is the largest indoor-outdoor museum complex in the United States and is visited by over 1.7 million people each year. Read More