VA, USA
Charlottesville
First-person accounts and interpretive stories from Charlottesville.
2 Stories
Accounts & Voices
Historical Voice
The Ride Nobody Remembers
Jack Jouett
Jack Jouett was at Cuckoo Tavern in Louisa County on the night of June 3, 1781, when he saw a column of British cavalry halt for a rest. Tarleton's green-jacketed dragoons were unmistakable, and Jouet...
Modern VoiceThe Mountain and Its Contradictions
Visitors come to Monticello expecting the home of a founding father, and they find that, but they also find a plantation where over 600 people were enslaved over the course of Jefferson's lifetime. Th...