Sawyers felled trees in the nearby forest and then sawed the timbers into planks at the saw pits.
Carpenters roughed out planks in the carpenter’s shop for flooring, joists, or planks.
Joiners used hand planes or lathes to create balusters, newel posts, arches, and fine furniture.
Charcoal-burners burned wood in “kilns” to produce wood charcoal for fuel in the nailery, smith’s shop, and main house.
Tinsmiths cut and soldered sheets of tin into cups, pepper boxes, graters, and other items.
Nailers, mostly enslaved boys, fashioned hand-made or machine-cut nails in the nailery and smith’s shop.
Spinners made thread on spinning jennies or spinning wheels while weavers used looms to make wool, hemp, or wool cloth.
Enslaved stablemen (hostlers) managed the care of horses and the occasional mule in the Mulberry Row stable.
Enslaved men and women cut up beef and pork and salted it for curing in the smokehouses.
Enslaved women cooled milk to make cream or churned butter in the dairy for Jefferson’s household.
Enslaved female house servants laundered clothing as well as bed and table linens from Jefferson’s household in the wash house.
Blacksmiths shaped or mended steel and iron horseshoes, guns, or agricultural machinery on anvils in the smith’s shop.
ADDRESS: 931 Thomas Jefferson Parkway Charlottesville, VA 22902 GENERAL INFORMATION: (434) 984-9800
