Complex sentence: To avoid the many visitors at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson in 1806 built a home near Lynchburg, called Poplar Forest, and frequented the town, noting, Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to be useful to the town of Lynchburg.
Split into simpler sentences: To avoid the many visitors at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson in 1806 built a home near Lynchburg, called Poplar Forest. He often visited the town, noting, Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to be useful to the town of Lynchburg.