Among his other notable achievements, Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia, located in Charlottesville, not far from his home at Monticello. During the 1820's, Jefferson designed one of the university's buildings, the Rotunda, to include a chemistry lab. This lab, which included a hearth, was walled off in 1850, and afterwards forgotten until it was recently discovered by workers renovating the Rotunda.
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