Historians In Awe Over Discovery At Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Property

Discoveries Made In The South Pavilion

The Jefferson Monticello

The ground floor of the South Pavilion then became a wash house, which led to numerous renovations from the original kitchen. So, despite the transformations from the kitchen to the washroom as well as two visitor restroom constructions in the 20th century, the archaeologists excavated in hopes of finding any evidence of the original construction kitchen.

Although they had Jefferson’s blueprints of the original Pavilion kitchen, they couldn’t be considered totally factual. Yet, after some excavating, they found artifacts from the 18th and 19th Centuries such as Chinese porcelain, ironstone, shell, wine bottle glass and more. They then continued digging and soon discovered fireplaces and eventually, they reached the brick flooring of the original kitchen.