On sunny days, a young Thomas Jefferson would ride a horse to ... What: World Heritage-listed Monticello in Charlottesville ...

Eggplant was an important vegetable in the Old World, with roots that reach back to their first known cultivation in ...

In the 1828 presidential election, Gen. Andrew Jackson denied John Quincy Adams a second term in office. Before coming to ...

I was recently trolled on social media for a “too-perfect” photo of Sasha’s Altai heirloom tomatoes. Given their origins in ...

Thomas Jefferson, who also happened to be the U.S. secretary of state. Jefferson’s obsession with the frontier west of the Mississippi River was well known. His library at Monticello had more ...

The room where President James Monroe crafted part of his famed doctrine exudes a quiet, stately atmosphere. Inside the enclosed west porch a few footsteps away, a quarried-stone floor marked by ...

The four-bedroom, three-bathroom house in the preserved Quaker village comes with a stone cottage and greenhouse.

The highest-profile effort to cultivate European grapes in the Americas was led by Thomas Jefferson, who enlisted an Italian winemaker to grow vinifera vines in his Monticello garden with the help ...

This week, hear new poetry at New Dominion Bookshop, get your official seeds for Albemarle County Fair's sunflower contest and more.