Jack Jouett Chapter
Organized February 13, 1922
Charlottesville, Virginia
A bronze tablet and boulder which marks the place whence Jack Jouett began his famous ride, reads as follows:
Captain Jack Jouett, Jr. 1745 - 1822 began his perious ride on horseback from this point Cuckoo Tavern, to Monticello, between midnight and dawn on June 4,1781, which saved Governor Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Assembly in session at Charlottesville from capture by the British under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton, thus protecting the author of the Declaration of Independence as well as contributing to the liberty of his country. May his memory live forever in the hearts of his countrymen. This boulder from the land of Cuckoo was placed first in 1926 by the people of the village and Louisa County at a site approximately 40 feet distant given by Dr. Eugene Pendleton whose family has owned "Cuckoo" since 1815. It was relocated here in 1968.