What to see in America . ntain. To it he retired from thepresidency in 1809, and the place at once became the Meccafor a host of visitors and admirers. Friends, kindred, andthe public generally came, and some arrived in families,bringing babies, nurses, drivers, and horses, perhaps tospend days or weeks at a time. Crowds would stand aboutthe house for hours, watching to see him come forth, until indesperation he wouldfly to his farm. PoplarForest, in BedfordCounty; and his com-ment, that Politicalhonors are but splen-did torments, ex-pressed his died at Monti-cello, July 4, 1826,whi
What to see in America . ntain. To it he retired from thepresidency in 1809, and the place at once became the Meccafor a host of visitors and admirers. Friends, kindred, andthe public generally came, and some arrived in families,bringing babies, nurses, drivers, and horses, perhaps tospend days or weeks at a time. Crowds would stand aboutthe house for hours, watching to see him come forth, until indesperation he wouldfly to his farm. PoplarForest, in BedfordCounty; and his com-ment, that Politicalhonors are but splen-did torments, ex-pressed his died at Monti-cello, July 4, 1826,while the nation wascelebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration ofIndependence which he had written, and on the same daythat his predecessor as President, John Adams, died inNew England. His grave is beside the road leading to thehouse. The people of Virginia are nicknamed **Beadles, a titleinherited from colonial days through the introduction thenof the English beadles, who were minor court and Monticello, the Ji(jME of Thomas Jeffer-son
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