We enjoyed touring the home, grounds, cemetery and museum at Monticello with our good friends the Webb’s. This is great place to spend a day, there is so much to see. Thomas Jefferson accomplished so much in his lifetime.
Monticello is the masterpiece of Thomas Jefferson—designed and redesigned and built and rebuilt for more than forty years from 1768 to 1808. There are a total of forty-three rooms in the entire structure: thirty-three in the house itself (cellar, twelve; first floor, eleven; second floor, six; third floor, four); four in the pavilions; and six under the South Terrace. The stable and carriage bays under the North Terrace are not included in these totals.
The top ball right-hand set of weights reveals the day and even the approximate hour as it falls past markers on the wall, with Sunday at the top and Saturday at the bottom. The clock is also attached to a Chinese gong that chimes the hour. In the eighteenth century, the gong rang loudly enough for field slaves to hear it three miles away.
