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THE DREAM
FULFILLED THE BICENTENNIAL OF
Poplar Forest
BY TRAVIS MCDONALD
Ideas Made Physical
Two hundred years ago, in the summer of 1806, President Thomas Jefferson wrote from Washington to his daughter Martha at Monticello that he would have to delay his summer break with her in order to lay the foundation of a new house in Bedford County, Virginia. From his work table in the President’s House, this multitalented man had drawn the plans, elevations, and details necessary for constructing a new, rural residence.
 LYNCH’S FERRY