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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LSD_a-lively-place_Nashville-TN.html
For nearly thirty years - from the construction of the brick dwellings in 1829 to the sale of this parcel of land in 1856 - the Field Quarter was home to at least eight enslaved families at The Hermitage. With fifty to eighty inhabitants, the Fiel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LSB_the-field-quarter_Nashville-TN.html
In 1806, Andrew Jackson purchased 640 acres north of the first Hermitage and in turn used this land mostly for field crops such as cotton and corn. Jackson chose this portion of that land to build dwellings for his field slaves because of its cent…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LRG_the-garden-privy_Nashville-TN.html
This small brick privy or necessary is something of a mystery. No documents or illustrations record the presence of such a building when the Jackson family lived on the property. Archaelogical evidence suggests that an older building may have stoo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZF5_the-hermitage-landscape_Nashville-TN.html
At a time when limited resources led to smaller dwellings, the distinctions between indoor and outdoor life blurred. When Jackson lived in the log farmhouse, this area buzzed with dawn-to dusk activity, sounds and smells. Cramped housing for white…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZF4_the-belted-galloway_Nashville-TN.html
The Belted Galloway is an heirloom breed of beef cattle originating in the mountainous region of Galloway in southwestern Scotland. A hardy breed, they are naturally polled (hornless) and are distinguished by their thick heavy coats and white belt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZF2_growing-cotton_Nashville-TN.html
Andrew Jackson called it his farm, but in reality, The Hermitage was a large cotton plantation dependent upon enslaved labor. All the agricultural actives on Jackson's 1000 - acre plantation supported his cotton. On average, Jackson's slaves plant…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZF1_land-conservation-at-the-hermitage_Nashville-TN.html
Prescribed Grazing at the Hermitage improves forage, animal, soil, and water resources.
Animal resources are improved by striving to maintain quality forge 3" to 8" tall. This height allows graze animals to have optimum intake. When animal gra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZF0_a-home-for-jacksons-slaves_Nashville-TN.html
Andrew Jackson arrived at the Hermitage in 1804 with nine slaves. By 1821, that number had risen to fifty. In 1823, Jackson brought another thirty enslaved African American here from his recently sold Alabama plantation.
Faced with pressing nee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZEZ_abandonment-and-preservation_Nashville-TN.html
In the years after Andrew Jackson's death, the Jackson's financial situation changed for the worse. The log farmhouse/slave cabin slowly fell into ruin. In 1889, the state of Tennessee entrusted the property to the Ladies' Hermitage Association. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZE6_a-future-presidents-home_Nashville-TN.html
Andrew Jackson took on life with grit and determination. Both served him well. Through persistence, ambition, and luck, the boy born into a struggling immigrant family and orphaned at age fourteen, would become a respected lawyer, judge, businessm…