Monticello () is a city located in San Juan County, Utah, and is the county seat.

In 1998, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dedicated the Monticello Utah Temple, the first in a series of mini temples and the 53rd temple for the Church.

Monticello was one of the many cities established by Mormon pioneers in the Utah Territory, which became the State of Utah.

In that year, on a journey to northern Utah from the San Juan River settlements, Apostles Erastus Snow and Brigham Young, Jr. passed through the current site of Monticello.

Monticello, Utah, where a uranium mill was operated by Vanadium Corp., was among the U. S. sites important to the Manhattan Project.

During these years the mill at Monticello processed large amounts of ore taken from the canyons of southeastern Utah.

Monticello Utah Temple

A 24 July Parade and Celebration are also held annually in Monticello to commemorate Pioneer Day, a Utah holiday commemorating the arrival of Mormon settlers to the Salt Lake Valley.

An open house was held from July 15 to July 18, 1998, and the Monticello Utah Temple was dedicated July 26, 1998.

* Monticello Utah Official City Website

ca: Monticello ( Utah )

de: Monticello ( Utah )

es: Monticello ( Utah )

fr: Monticello ( Utah )

it: Monticello ( Utah )

ht: Monticello, Utah

nl: Monticello ( Utah )

pt: Monticello ( Utah )

sv: Monticello, Utah

vo: Monticello ( Utah )

* Monticello, Utah, a town

Other cities in the region include Cortez and Durango in Colorado, Monticello and Blanding in Utah, Kayenta and Chinle in Arizona, and Shiprock, Aztec, and Bloomfield in New Mexico.

He was torn between the excitement in the sun-inflamed waters and a little engine chugging northward on the Monticello Branch.

He was encouraged to send a model of it, which remains at Monticello.

Realizing he would never leave Monticello again he was forced to decline an invitation to Washington to attend a fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Declaration.

He was buried in the Monticello Graveyard at five o ' clock in the afternoon, one day after his death.

In 1831 Monticello was sold by Martha Jefferson and the surviving Jefferson heirs to James Turner Barclay, and in 1834 Barclay in turn sold the house and remaining land to Uriah P. Levy.

" Daniel Webster, who was also at Monticello at the time, made the same report.

At Jefferson's direction, he was buried on the grounds, an area now designated as the Monticello Cemetery, which is owned by the Monticello Association, a lineage society of his descendants through Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson.

Mulberry Row was situated three-hundred feet ( 100 m ) south of Monticello, with the slave quarters facing the Jefferson mansion.

In the winter of 2000-2001, the slave burial ground at Monticello was discovered.

It was organized by the descendants, who have created a new group called the Monticello Community.

Monticello was featured in Bob Vila's A & E Network production, Guide to Historic Homes of America, in a tour which included Honeymoon Cottage and the Dome Room, which is open to the public during a limited number of tours each year.

A replica of Monticello was constructed in Chickasha, Oklahoma, the capital of the Creek nation.

Monticello also appeared on the reverse of the two-dollar bill from 1928 to 1966, when the bill was discontinued.

The current bill was introduced in 1976 and retains Jefferson's portrait on the obverse but replaced Monticello on the reverse with an engraved modified reproduction of John Trumbull's painting Declaration of Independence instead.

Surveying was done by Mounce Gore, also of Jackson County, and the Assembly instructed them to locate the county seat, to be called " Monticello ," near the center of the county.

The first was Monticello, near present-day Longview.

This was the location of the Monticello Convention where a group of prominent settlers from the Cowlitz and Puget Sound regions met to draft a petition to the District of Columbia calling for a separate territory, to be carved out the Oregon Territory, north of the Columbia River.

In 1822 at the age of 24, Beverly " ran away " from Monticello and was not pursued.

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation ( TJF ), which runs Monticello, conducted an independent historic review in 2000, as did the National Genealogical Society in 2001 ; both reported scholars who concluded Jefferson was likely the father of all Hemings ' children.

In 2012, the Smithsonian Institution and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation held a major exhibit at the National Museum of American History: Slavery at Jefferson's Monticello: The Paradox of Liberty ; it says that " evidence strongly support the conclusion that Jefferson was the father of Sally Hemings ' children.

She was not able to find much new information about Beverly or Harriet Hemings, who left Monticello as young adults and entered the white community, likely changing their names.

Harriet was described by Edmund Bacon, the longtime Monticello overseer, as " nearly as white as anybody, and very beautiful ".

* François Furstenberg, " Jefferson's Other Family: His concubine was also his wife's half-sister ", review of Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello, Slate, 23 September 2008

High School football is a popular community event ; the Monticello High School Billies won the AAA ( now AAAAA ) state championship in 1994 and in 2009 .; the Monticello Middle School football team was undefeated in the years from 2005 – 2008.