Complex sentence: Thomas Jefferson maintained a home near Lynchburg, called Poplar Forest, and frequented Lynchburg, noting, Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to be useful to the town of Lynchburg.
Split into simpler sentences: Thomas Jefferson maintained a home near Lynchburg, called Poplar Forest. Jefferson frequented Lynchburg and remarked, Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to be useful to the town of Lynchburg.