Brick_Wood_Stone_Land_Water_Measurement - University of Virginia

200 feet
Brick_Wood_Stone_Land_Water_Measurement
According to his specifications book, Operations at & for the College, Jefferson in laying out the site divided
it into a dozen smaller and thus easier to manage rectangles of 100 by 127-1/2 feet. The place at which the
theodolite was fixed being the center of the Northern square, and the point destined for some principal building
in the level of the square…each square is to be level with itself with a pavilion at each end. [Point] b is the
center of the middle square, and at [point] g we propose to erect our first pavilion…locust stakes were
driven at [points] l a f /g b h / i c k and at [point] d a pile of stones.
Operations at and for the College, 18 July 1817, ViU:TJ, and TJ to Latrobe, 3 August 1817, DLC:TJ; see also ibid., 900-901, 916, and Malone, Jefferson and His Times: The Sage of Monticello, 257-61.
In his letter of 3 August J
257 yards