Keli Travels Nashville part 7 April 2015

Eric, Laura, historical lady and me. They would not take the picture until I agreed to come down from standing on that "original to the house post"  The lady also took about 36 of this picture, so I am super glad one came out good.

A door at The Hermitage.

Andrew and Rachel Jackson's grave.

Uncle Alfred's grave. He got buried right beside Andrew Jackson.. probably just to stick it to him.. cause Andrew Jackson did not seem to be a really nice person.

THE HERMITAGE! home of Andrew and Rachel Jackson.

random outbuilding I thought was cool.

Laura and Eric

What the? How did this get here.. maybe this blog post is HAUNTED...BOO!

 I have a goal to visit all of the president's houses. 
In April 2015 while in Nashville, TN. I was able to visit the house of President Andrew Jackson and his wife Rachel. 
It is called The Hermitage. 

While the house and the property was awesome.. I got to learn things like..

how The Ladies Hermitage Association dug up trees from every battlefield Andrew Jackson fought at.. apparently that was appropriate then.. and replanted them at The Hermitage. 

A lot of those trees were later damaged because of the 2010 flood. 

I have toured lots of plantations and on a lot of them they say things like " oh the slaves here were treated really nice" "they loved it here" 
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I heard that you had to go " farther South than VA " to hear the real story.

 The Hermitage told the truth... 

I learned that while The Hermitage was being built Andrew Jackson and his family lived in a house on the property when it was built that house was turned into slave quarters but not before Andrew Jackson ordered that every nice thing about it was done away with...

JERK..

He also had a slave that lived to be 98 even after they started giving tours there. At one point the estate was so broke that this dude, Uncle Alfred bought a ton of Andrew Jackson's furniture including his bed.. (this way after his death) and moved it all into his house. The Ladies Hermitage Association let him live there. He gave tours and posed for pictures with people.  After Uncle Alfred died they just moved the furniture back into The Hermitage. Uncle Alfred put in his will that he wanted to be buried right next to Andrew Jackson's grave.. probably to stick it to him at least I hope that is why.

While in the visitors center we watched a movie about Andrew Jackson and I am not going to go into all the ridiculous stuff he stood for and did and things like that..

I will say that I heckled the movie though.. It was some old people in there.. and Laura and Eric.. and me on the row behind them.. and at one point this historian from UNC came on the screen and said "something that was really important and something he fought for was the rights of white men" 

THE RIGHTS OF WHITE MEN.......................HOW AND WHY IS THIS MAN STILL ON OUR TWENTY DOLLAR BILL..????

The rights of white men.. wow.. this dude was definitely a product of his time....

that being said..
SO HAPPY TO CHECK ANOTHER PRESIDENT'S HOUSE OFF MY BUCKET LIST...