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Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Distances between Poplar Forest and Natural Bridge, [ca. 17–21 September 1815]

Notes on Distances between Poplar Forest and Natural Bridge

[ca. 17–21 Sept. 1815]

Roads 
Poplar Forest
Callaway’s mill bridge.  5. } soon after passing Callaw’s mill a right hand is a better road, and saves 3. mi. to Clarke’s.
 4 { Leftwich’s mill
Liberty. 12
 2 Jenn’s gap road
10 Doneld’s mill
Chr. Clarke’s  6. miles 41½
Jenning’s gap.  5.
the river  8
Skidmore’s  21
Douthat’s—  5
Natl bridge  1½
Greenlee’s ferry  3½ } 8 hours ride, exclusive of stoppages of which 2 hours are2 for the 5 miles crossing the mountain
W. foot of mountn  4½
Petit’s gap  2
E. foot Mountn  3 32
Douglas’s  3
Tabernacle Meetg H  8
Pop. For.  8

MS (CSmH: JF); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated; subjoined to TJ’s MS pocket notes for his MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends entries covering 17–21 Sept. 1815, with Dft of TJ’s Calculations of Latitudes of the Sharp Peak of Otter and Natural Bridge, 18 Sept.–10 Nov. 1815, on verso.

1. Numeral added in place of “ferry [. . .]?”

2. Manuscript: “are are.”

Index Entries

  • Bedford County, Va.; roads in search
  • Bedford County, Va.; Tabernacle Meeting House search
  • Blue Ridge Mountains; routes through search
  • Callaway’s Mill (Bedford Co.); on route to Natural Bridge search
  • Clark, Christopher Henderson; home of on route to Natural Bridge search
  • Donald, Andrew; mill of search
  • Douglas, David; Bedford Co. innkeeper search
  • Douthat, Robert; innkeeper near Natural Bridge search
  • Greenlee’s Ferry (Rockbridge Co.); on route to Natural Bridge search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Notes on Distances between Poplar Forest and Natural Bridge search
  • Jenning’s Gap, Va.; on route to Natural Bridge search
  • Leftwich’s Mill (Bedford Co.); on route to Natural Bridge search
  • Liberty, Va.; on route to Natural Bridge search
  • Mount Prospect (Christopher Henderson Clark’s Bedford Co. estate); on route to Natural Bridge search
  • Natural Bridge, Va.; route to from Poplar Forest search
  • Petit’s Gap, Va.; on route to Natural Bridge search
  • Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); route from Natural Bridge to search
  • roads; in Va. search
  • Rockbridge County, Va.; roads in search
  • Skidmore’s Ferry; on route to Natural Bridge search
  • Virginia; roads in search

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Jefferson Papers
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Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Distances between Poplar Forest and Natural Bridge, [ca. 17–21 September 1815]
Author
Jefferson, Thomas
Date
17 September 1815

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“Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Distances between Poplar Forest and Natural Bridge, [ca. 17–21 September 1815],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-09-02-0020. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 9, September 1815 to April 1816, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, p. 35.]