Return To Monticello For 2006 Nickel

Virginia... how sad...I won't go to your state or buy from your state....

Glad I got a lot of Bisons.... :)

So, Monticello was Jeffersons home. Did some great historic event take place there, like being the first Whitehouse? Why is it featured on the back of a coin?

"Monticello is the autobiographical masterpiece of Thomas Jefferson, designed and redesigned and built and rebuilt for more than forty years" ....So it's just a cool looking building, that's it?

Jefferson died more than $107,000 in debt [:0] That's a lot of money in those days!
http://www.monticello.org/index.html

"Because Jefferson died more than $107,000 in debt, his daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph and her son and financial manager, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, found it necessary first to sell nearly all of the contents of Monticello and then to sell the plantation itself. In 1827, the furniture, animals, farm equipment, and slaves were offered at an executor's sale. In 1831, James T. Barclay, a local apothecary, purchased the home and 552 acres for $4,500, less the value of his own home. Unsuccessful in his attempts to cultivate silk worms there, he offered Monticello for sale barely two years later."