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  1. www.monticello.org › shadwellShadwell | Monticello

    Shadwell was the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson, and the main plantation of his father, Peter Jefferson. Located in Albemarle County, Virginia, it was named after the parish in London where Jane Randolph Jefferson was born.

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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Shadwell,_VirginiaShadwell, Virginia - Wikipedia

    Initially, it was a plantation worked by enslaved and free people and grew tobacco, grain, and clover. Then, a grist mill, sawmill, and carding factory expanded the Shadwell economy. Canals and locks were constructed in the Rivanna River to transport goods, including lumber, flour, grain, and cotton-yard.

  4. www.hmdb.org › mShadwell, Birthplace of Thomas Jefferson Historical Marker

    Mar 8, 2009 · Thomas Jefferson—author of the Declaration of Independence, third president of the United States, and founder of the University of Virginia—was born near this site on 13 April 1743. (A historical marker located near Shadwell in Albemarle County, Virginia.)

  5. hamiltonhistoricalrecords.wordpress.com › 2019 › 04The Shadwell Plantation – The Birthplace Of Thomas Jefferson ...

    Apr 1, 2019 · On April 13, 1743 the third United States President Thomas Jefferson was born in the Shadwell Plantation; that his father Peter Jefferson built in Albemarle County, Virginia.

  6. www.loc.gov › collections › thomas-jefferson-papers1743 to 1774 | The Thomas Jefferson Papers Timeline: 1743 to ...

    Thomas Jefferson is born at Shadwell plantation in Goochland (later Albemarle) County, Virginia, to Peter Jefferson, a planter and surveyor, and Jane Randolph, daughter of a prominent Virginia family.

  7. www.nps.gov › thje › learnThomas Jefferson - U.S. National Park Service

    Oct 6, 2021 · The elder of two sons in a family of 10, Jefferson was born in 1743 at Shadwell, a frontier plantation in Goochland (present Albemarle) County, Va. But two years later his father, Peter, a self-made surveyor-magistrate-planter who had married into the distinguished Randolph family, moved his family eastward to Tuckahoe, a plantation near Richmond.

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  9. www.jstor.org › stable › jThe Jeffersons at Shadwell on JSTOR

    Merging archaeology, material culture, and social history, historian Susan Kern reveals the fascinating story of Shadwell, the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson an...