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Generally fences were preferably left out of the landscape altogether or, if resources allowed, sunk into the ground as haha fences.  As can be seen at Jefferson’s Monticello and Washington’s Mount Vernon plantations, Madison’s peers took this style seriously and incorporated haha fences into their own English Garden-influenced landscapes.  Madison, like his founding brothers, would also try to make his fences disappear but as was typical of this most pragmatic man, he would do so in a more compromising and rational way.

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A haha fence at the end of the Bowling Green at George Washington's Mount Vernon in Fairfax County, VA.