By J. Ogborne When Poplar Forest archaeologists excavated the area that had once been the kitchen in Jefferson’s Wing of Offices, they found two cast iron grates. The kitchen, and […]

By Karen E. McIlvoy Thomas Jefferson owned and designed many clocks and watches throughout his life; enough that his home at Monticello contains at least one in nearly every room. […]

By: Joshua Ritzman and Anne Poulos This week we continued working at Sites A and B, the potential location of a slave cabin and a stable. Remains of the building’s […]

My name is Amanda Phelps, and I am the archaeology lab intern for January 2014. I am a senior at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY, with a major in Anthropology […]

By: Keisha Stoots On a sunny June morning, the 2014 Archaeology Field School students began our six week course at Poplar Forest. During this initial week, we focused on locating […]

by Samantha Fagone Week 2 of the Archaeology and Field school was full of new material as well as excitement for the upcoming field trip to Monticello that was to […]

By Emily Patton Smith Week 3 has seen an end to our relatively agreeable weather, as both heat and humidity—and an occasional afternoon thunderstorm—become more commonplace. However, our efforts are […]

By: Ryan Hodges Field Work: As we continue to uncover more of the carriage turnaround we are revealing much more of the area where we may potentially be able to […]

By Danielle Browley So many great and interesting things are happening at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest. We’ve been finding so many things artifact and feature wise in the field. The […]

By Ashley Stoots and staff contributions It is an anecdotally well-established rule among archaeologists that the final days of an excavation offer the most tantalizing discoveries, and this week proved […]

Over the last 3 years, archaeologists at Poplar Forest have excavated the Carriage Turnaround to understand what it might have looked like during Jefferson’s era and what changes the later […]

“So the ages have their dress and undress; And the gentlemen and ladies of Victoria’s time are satisfied with their manner of raiment…” W.M. THACKERAY — “THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP” […]