Today I am spotlighting the state of Virginia. I have visited it several times.
First, a beautiful university campus in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Welcome to the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819.
Its Rotunda was designed by Jefferson and its construction was completed shortly after Jefferson's death in 1826. If you wonder, viewing these pictures, if it resembles Monticello (Jefferson's home) - it does.
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| Monticello from a distance, April 2016 |
It should be noted that buildings on the original campus were built with the labor of enslaved people, and that scholars (male, of course). Women also had to fight hard to be able to go to this university, which only became fully co-educational in 1973.
I'll end here with beautiful dogwoods in bloom, Monticello, April of 2016.
V day in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge. My theme: Beauty of our Land.
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