Nashville. Part 2

Oct 12th, 2014
On Sunday Oct 12^th we visited the Hermitage. This is a place that we have visited a couple times in the past and still find it interesting to walk through. It also looks like we will have to come back again as they were working on a new museum that is scheduled to open around the first of the year.

Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States of America, serving from 1829 to 1837.



From 1804 to 1821 this farmhouse and kitchen outbuilding was the First Hermitage. Even though they furnished it quit lavishly, it was a far cry from their previous home in Nashville.  The original home was a two-story building and the upper portion was later separated to produce two one-story buildings.







This is the gate to the new Hermitage that the Jacksons moved into in 1821.



This is a view looking at the Hermitage from the gate entrance.  The trees you see here were planted within the last ten years to replace original trees that either died or were destroyed in a tornado.





The back side of the house looks as elegant as the front.  The brick building to the right of the house is the kitchen.  Kitchens were built separate from the house in the event of a fire.



The Hermitage was a farm of over 1,000 acres where they farmed, cotton, tobacco and raised the typical farm animals, plus he had a keen interest in race horses. These Belted Galloway’s were one species he had on the farm. We have seen the black and white Galloway’s before, but never the brown and white ones.



Sandy standing by a Magnolia  tree that was just starting to seed.





"Uncle" Alfred was Jackson’s personal attendant and he lived right behind the Hermitage in the right half of this log cabin.  Slaves were often called "Auntie" or "Uncle" if they were part of the house staff. Also, as requested, he is buried in the flower garden within a few feet of Jackson’s grave.



When we walked by this cotton patch Sandy asked what I was grinning about. I told her I was just thinking of Roy Clark’s song “I’ve Never Picked Cotton”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiQbFX_HNqg



Andrew and Rachel Jackson’s burial site in the garden next to the Hermitage.





Until next time,

Dave and Sandy