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Montpelier is administered by The Montpelier Foundation and is a National Trust Historic Site. Montpelier is a monument to James Madison and the enslaved community, a museum of American history, and a center for constitutional education that engages the public with the enduring legacy of Madison's most powerful idea: government by the people.
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- The President Woodrow Wilson House Washington, DC
Oct 19, 2008 · The legislator was James Madison, and it was through his winter's labor that he devised a system of checks and balances that would be enshrined in the Constitution of the United States that fall ...
- 'Reckoning with The Histories of Racism'
- Structural Parity at All Levels
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- People Enslaved at Montpelier
On June 16, the foundation board of directors voted on a proposal from the descendants to approve bylaws establishing the Montpelier Descendants Committee’s equality in governing James Madison’s Montpelier, a 2,650-acre estate in Orange County. The vote “represents an important step toward equity and reckoning with histories of racism,” the foundat...
The vote on bylaws came during the week of Juneteenth and followed a resolution May 27 saying the foundation board “affirms its commitment to collaborate with the Montpelier Descendants Committee to achieve structural parity with descendants at all levels of the organization.” Montpelier President and CEO Roy Young praised the “difficult yet import...
Recently, the foundation and the committee applied for and were awarded state funding to lead a major project: to create a memorial to the enslaved and partner with other descendant groups to expand memorialization efforts throughout Virginia, establish educational programs for teachers and law enforcement officers, develop anti-racist curriculum a...
In 2019, Montpelier received a Museums for America Program award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to design, build and install an interactive exhibition to foster conversations about fairness, justice and race between children and their caregivers. That exhibit complements “The Mere Distinction of Colour,” an award-winning exhibiti...
May 26, 2015 · The transformation of Montpelier began in 1983 when the last private resident of the home, Marion duPont, left the property to the National Trust for Historic Preservation (Her home is pictured above.) The duPonts were the eighth in a distinguished line of Montpelier owners going all the way back to 1844 when Madison’s wife Dolley first sold ...
September 9, 1969 [2] James Madison's Montpelier, located in Orange County, Virginia, was the plantation house of the Madison family, including Founding Father and fourth president of the United States James Madison and his wife, Dolley. The 2,650-acre (1,070 ha) property is open seven days a week. Montpelier was declared a National Historic ...
Jun 16, 2015 · Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, more than 300 enslaved Africans labored at Montpelier in Virginia as field hands, domestic servants, and skilled craftsmen during the three generations the Madison family owned Montpelier, now a National Trust Historic Site operated by The Montpelier Foundation. Several dozen domestic servants lived and worked close to the main house in what is today ...
May 5, 2023 · Montpelier is one of 20 historic museum properties owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It is located four miles southwest of Orange, Virginia, on Route 20, and lies approximately 25 miles north of Charlottesville and 70 miles south of Washington, D.C.
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