Hermitage Spring House - Hermitage, TN
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N 36° 13.038 W 086° 36.761
16S E 534812 N 4008120
The Hermitage is a historical plantation and museum located in Davidson County, Tennessee, USA.
Waymark Code: WM7J4R
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 10/30/2009
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The plantation that Jackson named Hermitage was ideally located 2 miles (3.2 km) from the Cumberland and Stones rivers; the land was originally settled by Nathaniel Hays in 1780. Hays sold the 420-acre (170 ha) farm to Jackson in 1804. Jackson and his wife Rachel moved into the existing two-story log blockhouse, built to resist Indian attacks. After Jackson built the main house, it was disassembled and rebuilt as two one-story buildings used as slave quarters; a part of it still stands behind The Hermitage.[4] Initially Jackson operated the cotton farm with nine African slaves, but this number gradually grew to 44 slaves by 1820 as the farm expanded to 1,000 acres (400 ha) and plantation agriculture.
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