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The farm provided corn, wheat, rye, and barley for the Monticello plantation. [1] [5] While he was president (1801–1809), Jefferson leased the farm to John Craven, who grew tobacco. [2] Jefferson's grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, managed the farm beginning in 1817. [1] That year, Randolph added a stone wing to the log cabin.
This map shows the overall preliminary site plan that was presented as part of a rezoning discussion in January 2024 for the 150-acre Thomas Farm property along Golf Road between Glen Cove and ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Alabama that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Thomas Kent Jr. Farm is a historic home and farm located at Franklin Township in Greene County, Pennsylvania. The house was built about 1851, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story, brick dwelling with a 2-story rear ell in the Greek Revival style.
The tower at Richardson Adventure Farm in Illinois, illuminated at night, allows visitors a higher view of the farm's 28-acre corn maze. It's one of many attractions at the farm.
In 1931, Garst and Thomas Hi-Bred Corn Company was founded by Roswell Garst and Charley Thomas in Coon Rapids, Iowa, and was "instrumental in promoting the use of hybrid corn." [ 1 ] During the Cold War , Garst formed a relationship with Nikita Khrushchev and assisted the USSR in modernizing its corn production.
Thomas lived at Shadwell [c] until the fire, at which time he removed to Monticello. [ 12 ] [ d ] During the fire, Thomas lost almost all of his books and all of his papers. [ 7 ] Although Thomas did not live at Shadwell after the fire, he continued to operate Shadwell as a farm, growing rotating crops of clover, corn, and wheat. [ 7 ]
The Thomas Farm site is an Early Miocene, Hemingfordian assemblage of vertebrate fossils located in Gilchrist County, northern Florida. [ 1 ] The Thomas Farm site is one of the richest terrestrial deposits of Miocene vertebrates in the 18 Ma range found in eastern North America according to the Florida Museum of Natural History . [ 2 ]