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Thomas Jefferson's Original Tombstone

Columbia, MO

Thomas Jefferson's original gravestone was given to the University of Missouri by his descendants in the nineteenth century and now stands on Francis Quadrangle. The odd relocation puts a major presidential funerary artifact hundreds of miles from Jefferson's actual grave at Monticello.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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