Archway showing view of Monticello in the distance. Jefferson and Monroe planned to live within signalling distance. "Ash Lawn," home of James Monroe, revolutionary hero, signer of the Louisiana Purchase, author of the Monroe Doctrine and fifth President of the United States. Planned for him by his friend and neighbor Thomas Jefferson and built in 1798, within three miles of "Monticello," Charlottesville, Virginia.
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