
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, August 24, 1993                   TAG: 9308240167
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
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JEFFERSON FOUNDATION ACQUIRES MORE LAND

The Corporation for Jefferson's Poplar Forest has bought the last remaining undeveloped land around Thomas Jefferson's Bedford County retreat in Forest.

Acquiring the land, which had been slated in recent years for condominiums, was a top priority, according to Anne Worrell, president of the foundation.

The 15 acres, divided between two plots, will cost nearly $700,000. An anonymous gift of $100,000 provided the down payment on the property.

Jefferson built Poplar Forest as a retreat from his Monticello home in Charlottesville. It was sold by his grandson and altered considerably after a fire in the 1840s and when it was modernized earlier this century.

by CNB