There's no place like home.
In a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to his friend and physician, Dr. George Glimer, our nation's third president said, "I am as happy no where else and in no other society, and all my wishes end, where I hope my days will end, at Monticello."
Jefferson called his beloved Virginia home his "essay in Architecture" — one that took him more than 40 years to write, rewrite and reimagine.
He did live out his final days at Monticello. He died on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of arguably the most important document he drafted: the Declaration of Independence.
According to one account, his final words were, "Is it the Fourth?"
On this Fourth of July, the 249th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, we thought it would be fun to explore some of the homes of the signers, our nation's founding fathers.
Virginia
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Rhode Island
New York
New Jersey
North Carolina
New Hampshire
Maryland
Massachusetts
Georgia
Connecticut
Delaware
