Monticello Mulberry Row
by LeeAnn McLaneGoetz McLaneGoetzStudioLLCcom
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Monticello Mulberry Row
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LeeAnn McLaneGoetz McLaneGoetzStudioLLCcom
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Photograph - Photography
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Monticello Mulberry Row
On the slope below Mulberry Row, slaves maintained an extensive vegetable garden for Jefferson and the main house. In addition for to having flowers for display and producing crops for eating, Jefferson used the gardens of Monticello for experimenting with different species. The house was the center of a plantation of 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) tended by some 150 slaves.
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June 13th, 2011
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LeeAnn McLane-Goetz
The main house was augmented by small outlying pavilions to the north and south. A row of outhouse buildings (dairy, wash houses, store houses, a small nail factory, a joinery etc.) and slave dwellings known as Mulberry Row lay nearby to the south. A stone weaver's cottage survives, as does the tall chimney of the joinery, and the foundations of other buildings. A cabin on Mulberry Row was, for a time, the home of Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman who is widely believed to have had a 38-year relationship with the widower Jefferson and to have borne six children by him, four of whom survived to adulthood.