James Monroe was America’s 5th president and at the beginning of the 19th century he called Highland, an antebellum plantation in Virginia’s Blue Ridge foothills, home. In 1825, saddled by personal debt, Monroe sold the Highland estate and over the intervening two centuries, the plantation has had a numerous owners. Fifty years ago, philanthropist Jay Winston John’s willed the property to William & Mary. Today, the 500-acre property is a historic site, a working farm, and a W&M camp...
