sara bon-harper: you had to mills -- 2 mills. >> [inaudible] sara bon-harper: it is known, generally, where they are. i would not be the person to walk you to the spot and show you. don't believe me if i take you for a walk to do that. [laughter] >> one of the headbangers there at that time? sara bon-harper: i -- talking about problems was a very generous thing to do. sara bon-harper: it was not a hostile takeover. i would defer any number of the historians in the audience. did you want to -- >> the person who engineer was john jacob astor. he was on the board of governors and i think it was for monroefriendship than anything else to help them -- him resolve his problems and consolidate all the debt. sara bon-harper: thank you. or they would tiling -- wood tiling or a mix? sara bon-harper: the slave titles that i am more familiar with from this time and place, are probably still construction. a wooden beam laid on the ground surface. this makes them very hard to discover archaeologically. later, you see more solid foundations. you see the move toward raised within the whole movement i

chapel hill and the you are in a sea of virginia, so we are delighted this afternoon to have sara bon-harperexecutive director of highland. [applause] sara bon-harper: what a warm welcome. thank you. it is a pleasure to be with the group that no so much about monroe. glad tod to be here and be finding out there is always something new in history, and that is what we will talk about today. everybody hold your breath. thes monroe's highland is current name for the property. about a year ago, we reclaimed that historic name for the site. james monroe after dithering for would nameecided he his property highland, and that is what he called it. lawn, -- ashlawn was a later name for the property, a 19th-century name, and my predecessor as executive director there had the foresight to put the highland back in, so wn highland name existed for a while, and we came out on the other side of that and in april last year reclaimed the historic name. that is a signal of our clear focus on the row and his legacy and the messages we can share about that, so are sure you a little bit of the history there goin