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Oct 1, 2021 · SUMMARY. Montpelier, the Orange County family home of James Madison, utilized the labor of enslaved African Americans from its initial founding as Mount Pleasant in 1723 through the end of Madison family ownership in 1844. Enslaved laborers cleared the land for a plantation, built the plantation house, grew food, performed domestic chores, and ...
September 9, 1969 [2] James Madison's Montpelier, located in Orange County, Virginia, was the plantation house of the Madison family, including Founding Father and fourth president of the United States James Madison and his wife, Dolley. The 2,650-acre (1,070 ha) property is open seven days a week. Montpelier was declared a National Historic ...
Montpelier is one of 20 historic museum properties owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It is located four miles southwest of Orange, Virginia, on Route 20, and lies approximately 25 miles north of Charlottesville and 70 miles south of Washington, D.C.
Descendants’ Project Connecting the Past to the Present Montpelier’s African American Descendants’ Project seeks to identify and create bridges to living descendants of the African American women and men who were enslaved at Montpelier and elsewhere in Orange County, Virginia. Beyond this, Montpelier researchers and scholars wish to expand the local, regional, and national African […]
Oct 19, 2008 · Montpelier, which lies a few miles south of Orange, Virginia, and about 90 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., is where Madison grew up and where he retired after his days as president were over.
This is a virtual tour of Montpelier, the Orange County plantation home of James Madison, the fourth president of the United States. In 1864, enslaved laborers built the original two-story brick home for Madison’s father, James Madison Sr. When the former president returned in 1797 to live at Montpelier with his new wife, Dolley Todd Madison, they decided to remodel the house. Read more ...
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2016 marked the first year the annual Juneteenth celebration was hosted at James Madison's Montpelier. Many would view holding Juneteenth at a place where people were enslaved to be a contradiction. However, it is this collaboration between Montpelier and the Orange community that has made this event powerful.
