President Andrew Jackson's Home in Nashville, Tennessee

Andrew Jackson's purchased this

 425 acre plantation in Nashville

in 1804 and named it

 The Hermitage.

Eric stands in the doorway
of the cabin that Andrew
& Rachel lived in for
17 years.

The bedroom walls of this small

 home were covered with French

painted wall paper.

Oriental Rugs covered the

floors.

The Jackson household was a comfortable one.  Nashville's stores could order anything a couple could want for their home.  They owned ceramics, silver tableware, cloth, coffee, tea, sugar  Furniture was purchased from local cabinet makers.

Andrew Jackson wanted a grand home that showed his status as a Southern plantation pwner, businessman and politician.  Rachel was comfortable in the cabin, where she had everything she ever wanted.

Construction of a Federal Style house was completed in 1821.   Rachel lived in the grand home until her death on December 22, 1828.  The house was expanded in 1831 and the exterior was changed to Greek Revival following a fire in 1834.





The front of Andrew Jackson's
8,000 foot mansion is obcured
by trees.

Photos aren't allowed in the mansion.  These photos were found on the internet.

The large entryway has French

painted wallpaper featuring a

 scene from The Odyssey on

 the walls.

I asked about the blue baseboards.  This color represents the sky.

The Back Parlor

The Dining Room 

Andrew Jackson's Bedroom

He died here on June 8, 1845.

The door on the right leads

to the President's Bedroom.

The peach walls represent the

Peaches grown here.

Andrew Jackson read numerous newspapers, saved them and had them bound.  The large tomes near the recliner are his newspaper collection. 

The Kitchen

Andrew & Rachel Jackson

are entombed beneath the

Grecian structure.

Family members are

buried nearby.

In the Antebellum South, farmers and plantation owners relied on slave labor.

Excavated Slave Quarters

Three families lived in this
small dwelling.





Slaves did the farm work. They raised crops for the house, to feed the livestock, and for sale. Cotton was The Hermitage's cash crop.  Slaves tended the Cattle, Chickens and Geese. Slaves worked in the kitchen, cleaned the house, did the wash and waited on the Jacksons and their many guests.

 

Belted Galloway Beef Cattle

are still raised here.

After the Civil War, freed

slave Alfred Jackson moved

into this cabin & was the

Hermitage's first Tour Guide.