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Peter Farley Fossett
Monticello was a working plantation, home to both the Jefferson family and an extended community of workers, black and white, enslaved and free. On the quarter farms of Monticello as many as 130 enslaved African Americans raised crops and tended livestock, made nails and barrels, cloth and carriages. They helped to build the house, crafted many of its furnishings, and cultivated the gardens.

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Peter Farley Fossett, born as a slave at Monticello; source unknown, Reproduced in W.P. Dabney, Cincinnati's Colored Citizens (Cincinnati, 1926.)Lives

Biographies of some of the people who lived and worked at Monticello
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LandLand

The buildings and farms of Jefferson's Albemarle County holdings.
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WorkWork

The industries and activities pursued at Monticello.
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Monticello Explorer

Monticello ExplorerSee the how the Monticello Home Farm changed over the years and learn about some of its sites and features using an interactive map.
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Monticello Plantation Database

Information on over 600 individuals owned by Jefferson throughout his life.
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