June 10-12 2017
SATURDAY
8:30AM – 10:30AM - Family Graveyard Cleaning
No Cost • Water will be provided.
The annual graveyard clean up is a great way to help maintain the Graveyard and to learn, visit and get to know one another. We encourage you to bring cleaning tools you found useful in years past.
11: 00AM - 12:00PM - Jefferson Papers Retirement Series with focus on Eppes family branch
No Cost – Please reserve your spot.
Come join us as we enjoy a lecture about the Eppes family branch of Jefferson descendants. This will pair nicely with our additional Monday events, especially the trip to Eppington.
11:00 - Noon – Mountaintop Youth activity
No Cost – Please reserve your spot.
The Monticello Education or Archeology department will lead a youth activity for school age children, last year’s event was very successful and the children had a great time.
1:30 – 2:30PM - Discussion: The restoration efforts of the stables with Gardiner Hallock, the Robert H. Smith Director of Restoration, will speak on the restoration of the Monticello Stables.
No Cost – Please reserve your spot.
2:30 – 3:15PM - Site visit to stables
We are invited to tour the stables and see some of the great restoration work that the TJF is doing.
5:30 – 8:30PM - Evening Reception & Monticello House Tours
Monticello South Lawn/North Lawn
Cost: $50 - 21 and older, $30 ages 13-20, and $15 under 13
For many, this is the highlight of the weekend! As in years past, we will have drinks and hors d'oeuvres. Tours inside Monticello will be available starting at 6:30, after which we will be gathering on the back steps of Monticello for our family picture.
8:30 – 10:00PM - Dinner in courtyard - Monticello Visitor’s Center
Cost: $50 - 21 and older, $30 ages 13-20, and $15 under 13
This year’s menu includes: Espresso Orange Pulled Pork Barbeque, Mediterranean Chicken Salad and Herb Roasted Salmon. Side dishes of Macaroni & Cheese, Traditional Cole Slaw and Tomato Cucumber Salad. Dessert selection of Chocolate Brownies, Mini
Ginger Crinkle Cookies and Mini Chocolate Crinkle Cookies.
SUNDAY
10:30AM Graveyard Service
Association members and their guests will assemble at the family graveyard to remember family members, place flowers on graves and to pay tribute to Mr. Jefferson and all others who are buried there.
11:00am - Annual Meeting Business Lunch
Monticello Visitors Center – Lower Level Classroom • Cost: $15
Buffet style selection of sandwiches, salads and desserts from
Take Away Sandwich Shop.
M O N D A Y • * * NEW**
10:45 – 12:45PM - Eppington – Chesterfield County, VA
Cost: $10 per person includes lunch (75 miles from Charlottesville)
Located along the Appomattox River in Chesterfield County, Eppington was the Georgian plantation home of Maria Jefferson Eppes and John Wayles Eppes. The builder of Eppington, Francis Eppes, was a cousin of Jefferson’s wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. Following Martha's death in 1782, two of Thomas Jefferson’s daughters, Maria (Polly) and Lucy, lived there with the Eppes family while Jefferson served as minister to France. Tragically, Lucy died at age two in 1784 and was buried at Eppington.
In 1797, Polly married Francis Eppes's son, John Wayles Eppes, and made the plantation her home. Jefferson visited Eppington on several occasions, and was at this location when he received a letter from George Washington offering him the position
of Secretary of State.
1:15 – 2:00PM - Appomattox Manor - Hopewell VA
No Cost • Please reserve your spot (25 min. from Eppington)
Appomattox Manor sits on lands that were patented to the first Francis Eppes in 1635. The area around the plantation was settled in 1613 and was first known as Bermuda City--it was later renamed City Point. The original house was built in 1763 with substantial additions over time. The surrounding outbuildings were constructed in the 1800s. The property remained in the Eppes family until 1979.
During the Revolutionary War, British troops under General Benedict Arnold marched through the plantation. In the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant used Appomattox as his headquarters from June 1864 until April 1865. General Grant occupied a tent and later a cabin on the property, while he commanded his army in the final months of the Civil War. In the last months of the war, President Abraham Lincoln visited General Grant in the drawing room of the house.
Appomattox Manor is now used as an historic house museum by the City Point Unit of the Petersburg National Battlefield.
2:30 – 3:15PM - Weston Plantation/Manor • Hopewell VA
Cost: $7 per person
Nearby to Appomattox Manor is Weston Manor, which is one of a few remaining plantation homes left on the lower Appomattox River. It became part of the Eppes family properties in the 1780s, when William Gilliam and his wife, Christine Eppes Gilliam,
purchased Weston and built the existing house. The house is notable for containing nearly all of its original architectural fabric, including the original beaded weatherboards, window sash, and interior woodwork.
During the Civil War, a Northern gunboat shelled Weston. Later it was used as the headquarters of Union General Philip Sheridan. Weston Manor was listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register on November 16, 1971 and the National Register of Historic Places on April 13, 1972. The Historic Hopewell Foundation maintains the plantation.
8:30AM – 10:30AM - Family Graveyard Cleaning
No Cost • Water will be provided.
The annual graveyard clean up is a great way to help maintain the Graveyard and to learn, visit and get to know one another. We encourage you to bring cleaning tools you found useful in years past.
11: 00AM - 12:00PM - Jefferson Papers Retirement Series with focus on Eppes family branch
No Cost – Please reserve your spot.
Come join us as we enjoy a lecture about the Eppes family branch of Jefferson descendants. This will pair nicely with our additional Monday events, especially the trip to Eppington.
11:00 - Noon – Mountaintop Youth activity
No Cost – Please reserve your spot.
The Monticello Education or Archeology department will lead a youth activity for school age children, last year’s event was very successful and the children had a great time.
1:30 – 2:30PM - Discussion: The restoration efforts of the stables with Gardiner Hallock, the Robert H. Smith Director of Restoration, will speak on the restoration of the Monticello Stables.
No Cost – Please reserve your spot.
2:30 – 3:15PM - Site visit to stables
We are invited to tour the stables and see some of the great restoration work that the TJF is doing.
5:30 – 8:30PM - Evening Reception & Monticello House Tours
Monticello South Lawn/North Lawn
Cost: $50 - 21 and older, $30 ages 13-20, and $15 under 13
For many, this is the highlight of the weekend! As in years past, we will have drinks and hors d'oeuvres. Tours inside Monticello will be available starting at 6:30, after which we will be gathering on the back steps of Monticello for our family picture.
8:30 – 10:00PM - Dinner in courtyard - Monticello Visitor’s Center
Cost: $50 - 21 and older, $30 ages 13-20, and $15 under 13
This year’s menu includes: Espresso Orange Pulled Pork Barbeque, Mediterranean Chicken Salad and Herb Roasted Salmon. Side dishes of Macaroni & Cheese, Traditional Cole Slaw and Tomato Cucumber Salad. Dessert selection of Chocolate Brownies, Mini
Ginger Crinkle Cookies and Mini Chocolate Crinkle Cookies.
SUNDAY
10:30AM Graveyard Service
Association members and their guests will assemble at the family graveyard to remember family members, place flowers on graves and to pay tribute to Mr. Jefferson and all others who are buried there.
11:00am - Annual Meeting Business Lunch
Monticello Visitors Center – Lower Level Classroom • Cost: $15
Buffet style selection of sandwiches, salads and desserts from
Take Away Sandwich Shop.
M O N D A Y • * * NEW**
10:45 – 12:45PM - Eppington – Chesterfield County, VA
Cost: $10 per person includes lunch (75 miles from Charlottesville)
Located along the Appomattox River in Chesterfield County, Eppington was the Georgian plantation home of Maria Jefferson Eppes and John Wayles Eppes. The builder of Eppington, Francis Eppes, was a cousin of Jefferson’s wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. Following Martha's death in 1782, two of Thomas Jefferson’s daughters, Maria (Polly) and Lucy, lived there with the Eppes family while Jefferson served as minister to France. Tragically, Lucy died at age two in 1784 and was buried at Eppington.
In 1797, Polly married Francis Eppes's son, John Wayles Eppes, and made the plantation her home. Jefferson visited Eppington on several occasions, and was at this location when he received a letter from George Washington offering him the position
of Secretary of State.
1:15 – 2:00PM - Appomattox Manor - Hopewell VA
No Cost • Please reserve your spot (25 min. from Eppington)
Appomattox Manor sits on lands that were patented to the first Francis Eppes in 1635. The area around the plantation was settled in 1613 and was first known as Bermuda City--it was later renamed City Point. The original house was built in 1763 with substantial additions over time. The surrounding outbuildings were constructed in the 1800s. The property remained in the Eppes family until 1979.
During the Revolutionary War, British troops under General Benedict Arnold marched through the plantation. In the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant used Appomattox as his headquarters from June 1864 until April 1865. General Grant occupied a tent and later a cabin on the property, while he commanded his army in the final months of the Civil War. In the last months of the war, President Abraham Lincoln visited General Grant in the drawing room of the house.
Appomattox Manor is now used as an historic house museum by the City Point Unit of the Petersburg National Battlefield.
2:30 – 3:15PM - Weston Plantation/Manor • Hopewell VA
Cost: $7 per person
Nearby to Appomattox Manor is Weston Manor, which is one of a few remaining plantation homes left on the lower Appomattox River. It became part of the Eppes family properties in the 1780s, when William Gilliam and his wife, Christine Eppes Gilliam,
purchased Weston and built the existing house. The house is notable for containing nearly all of its original architectural fabric, including the original beaded weatherboards, window sash, and interior woodwork.
During the Civil War, a Northern gunboat shelled Weston. Later it was used as the headquarters of Union General Philip Sheridan. Weston Manor was listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register on November 16, 1971 and the National Register of Historic Places on April 13, 1972. The Historic Hopewell Foundation maintains the plantation.
