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Initial excavations last month at Monticello revealed a layer of brick rubble. (Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello)

Enslaved and Free Workers Built Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Brick by Brick. Archaeologists Just Discovered One of the Kilns They Used

Researchers think the newly unearthed structure was used to fire and cure bricks during construction of the site’s original mansion in the early 1770s

Sarah Kuta

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