Editing Monticello (section)

==Outbuildings and plantation==
[[File:Monticello veggie garden.JPG|thumb|right|Jefferson's vegetable garden]]
[[File:Monticello Graveyard historical marker IMG 4203.JPG|thumb|Plaque commemorating Monticello Graveyard, owned and operated separately by the [[Monticello Association]]]]
[[File:Monticello Graveyard, VA IMG 4204.JPG|right|thumb|Monticello Graveyard]]
[[File:Thomas Jefferson gravestone at Monticello IMG 4201.JPG|thumb|Jefferson's gravestone, with an epitaph written by him, does not mention that he was President of the United States.]]

The main house was augmented by small outlying pavilions to the north and south. A row of outbuildings (dairy, a washhouse, store houses, a small nail factory, a joinery, etc.) and quarters for slaves ([[log cabins]]), known as Mulberry Row, lay nearby to the south. A stone weaver's cottage survives, as does the tall chimney of the joinery, and the foundations of other buildings. A cabin on Mulberry Row was, for a time, the home of [[Sally Hemings]], Jefferson's sister-in-law and a slave woman who worked in the household. Hemings is widely believed to have had a 38-year relationship with the widower Jefferson and to have borne six children by him, four of whom survived to adulthood. The genealogist Helen F.M. Leary concluded that "the chain of evidence securely fastens Sally Hemings's children to their father, Thomas Jefferson."<ref>Helen F.M. Leary, "Sally Hemings's Children: A Genealogical Analysis of the Evidence", ''National Genealogical Society Quarterly'', Vol. 89, No. 3, September 2001, p. 207 (165–207)</ref> Later Hemings lived in a room in the "south dependency" below the main house.

On the slope below Mulberry Row, African slaves maintained an extensive vegetable garden for the main house. In addition to growing flowers for display and producing crops for eating, Jefferson used the [[gardens of Monticello]] for experimenting with different species. The house was the center of a plantation of {{cvt|5000|acre}} tended by some 150 slaves. There are also two houses included in the whole.

===Programming===
In recent decades, the TJF has created programs to more fully interpret the lives of slaves at Monticello. Beginning in 1993, researchers interviewed descendants of Monticello slaves for the ''Getting Word Project'', a collection of oral history that provided much new insight into the lives of slaves at Monticello and their descendants. (Among findings were that no slaves adopted Jefferson as a surname, but many had their own surnames as early as the 18th century.)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Thomas Jefferson's Monticello - Official Website |url=https://www.monticello.org/ |access-date=April 30, 2023 |website=Monticello |language=en}}</ref>

Some of Mulberry Row has been designated as [[archeological]] sites, where excavations and analysis are revealing much about the life of slaves at the plantation. In the winter of 2000–2001, the African slave burial ground at Monticello was discovered. In the fall of 2001, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation held a commemoration of the burial ground, in which the names of known slaves of Monticello were read aloud. Additional archeological work is providing information about [[African American]] burial practices.<ref>[http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/honoring-ancestors "Honoring the Ancestors"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201232357/http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/honoring-ancestors |date=December 1, 2010 }}, ''Plantation and Slavery'', Monticello, accessed March 21, 2011</ref>

In 2003, Monticello welcomed a reunion of descendants of Jefferson from both the Wayles's and Hemings's sides of the family. It was organized by the descendants, who have created a new group called the Monticello Community.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Reunion bridges Jefferson family rift |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3077133 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030011144/https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3077133 |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 30, 2020 |access-date=April 30, 2023 |website=NBC News |date=July 13, 2003 |language=en}}</ref> Additional and larger reunions have since been held.

===Land purchase===
In 2004, the trustees of TJF acquired Mountaintop Farm (also known locally as Patterson's or Brown's Mountain), the only property that overlooks Monticello. Jefferson had called the taller mountain Montalto. To prevent development of new homes on the site, the trustees spent $15 million to purchase the property. Jefferson had owned it as part of his plantation, but it was sold off after his death. In the 20th century, its farmhouses were divided into apartments for many [[University of Virginia]] students. TJF officials had long considered the property an eyesore, and planned to acquire it when it became available.<ref name="The Hook">{{cite web |url=http://www.readthehook.com/Stories/2004/06/03/newsOffMontaltoquotitsAllD.html |title=The Hook - Off Montalto, "It's all downhill from here." |date=June 3, 2004 |access-date=February 18, 2007 |archive-date=September 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923002411/http://www.readthehook.com/95251/news-montalto-quotits-all-downhill-herequot |url-status=live }}</ref>