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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZE4_the-first-hermitage_Nashville-TN.html
These log buildings tell a remarkable American story unlike any other. From 1804 to 1821, as a two-story farmhouse and kitchen outbuilding, the First Hermitage housed future United States President Andrew Jackson and his family. Here, Jackson live…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZE0_the-hunters-hill-farm-building_Nashville-TN.html
This log building was not part of Andrew Jackson's Hermitage. In 1929, a fire destroyed one of Jackson's original barns. To help replace it, The Ladies' Hermitage Association purchased and moved this log building from the nearby Hunter's Hill prop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZDZ_filed-quarter-trail_Nashville-TN.html
This path leads to the Field Quarter, an area that was once home to at least eighty enslaved African-Americans. A series of illustrated signs near expose building foundations at the site help you to "see" what life was like for this part of the He…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZDY_the-springhouse_Nashville-TN.html
Of all the enticements Tennessee offered settlers, one promised both survival and a future: Water. Falling from above, bubbling up from below, flowing in broad river "highways": Water.
Two natural free-flowing springs made The Hermitage a fine …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZDW_property-family-humanity_Nashville-TN.html
For the Jackson family, the enslaved were property and the foundation of their wealth. The monetary value of the enslaved far exceeded the combined worth of the Hermitage land, mansion and other improvements.
Andrew Jackson himself had no qualm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZDV_icehouse_Nashville-TN.html
The Hermitage icehouse, a common feature on larger farms and plantations during the nineteenth century, stood on the north side of the smokehouse.
Archaeological excavation at this site in 1993 uncovered a portion of a 20 by 20 foot rectangula…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZDU_the-triplex_Nashville-TN.html
Rarely do facts alone uncover the past. Scholarship, judgment, and analysis all have roles in interpreting evidence, and hints, of long-ago lives. So it is with these stones marking the location of a building that Hermitage archaeologists have nam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZDT_alfreds-cabin_Nashville-TN.html
While the bold and dramatic claim center stage, history is also written in the quite, humble ways...and lives. Alfred Jackson was unique among the enslaved at The Hermitage. Born at The Hermitage to Betty, the cook, and Ned, the carpenter, Alfred …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZDS_the-work-yard_Nashville-TN.html
The stately trees and park-like grounds of today's Hermitage bear scant resemblance to the working plantation of Andrew Jackson's time. As the farm developed, trees were cleared to make room for fields and pastures.
By the time the first photog…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZDR_a-landscape-of-inequality_Nashville-TN.html
The idyllic planter's life presented to white visitors by the Jackson family was based on the unpaid labor of over 150 enslaved black men, women, and children. Without the grueling labor of these individuals, the Jackson family could not have live…