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  1. www.usatoday.com › story › travelJames Madison's Montpelier: Enslaved people's descendants to ...

    Jun 28, 2021 · 0:04. 0:50. ORANGE, Va. – In a breakthrough culminating nearly 30 years of work at James Madison’s Montpelier, descendants of enslaved persons at a major national historic site for the first ...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Montpelier_(Orange,_Virginia)Montpelier (Orange, Virginia) - Wikipedia

    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 ...

  3. www.npr.org › 2022/04/20 › 1093673939Montpelier's fight with descendants of the enslaved brings ...

    Apr 21, 2022 · The foundation that runs Virginia's historic Montpelier, home of the fourth U.S. president, James Madison, and birthplace of the Constitution, said Wednesday it was open to addressing parity on ...

  4. apnews.com › article › virginia-orange-6464f78428Montpelier ends power-share with enslaved descendants group

    Mar 28, 2022 · Published 11:28 AM PDT, March 28, 2022. ORANGE, Va. (AP) — Less than a year after the board that manages James Madison’s Montpelier estate in Virginia announced plans to share authority equally with descendants of people once enslaved there, the board has voted to strip power-sharing status from a group representing African Americans who ...

  5. www.montpelier.orgJames Madison's Montpelier | Explore History & Legacy

    Montpelier is the lifelong home of James Madison, Father of the Constitution, Architect of the Bill of Rights, and fourth President of the United States. As a monument to James Madison and the Enslaved Community, a museum of American history, and a center for constitutional education, Montpelier engages the public with the enduring legacy of Madison’s most powerful idea: government by the ...

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  6. www.cbs19news.com › archaeologists-recoveringArchaeologists recovering artifacts hit by fire at Montpelier

    Apr 26, 2024 · The fire took out a lot of equipment like computers and flagging markers. ORANGE COUNTY, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- Archaeologists at James Madison’s Montpelier are recovering priceless artifacts that were damaged in a lab fire. "It's been, been really hard," said Matthew Reeves, the Director of Archaeology and Landscape Restoration at Montpelier.

  7. www.washingtonpost.com › history › 2022/04/22Montpelier plantation shared power with enslaved descendants ...

    Apr 22, 2022 · ORANGE COUNTY, Va. — James Albert French stood on his family’s ancestral land, on a mountain ridge in Orange County in Virginia. Six miles away was Montpelier, the plantation that belonged to ...

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