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The Hermitage (Nashville, Tennessee)

The Hermitage is a historical museum located in Davidson County, Tennessee, United States, 10 miles (16 km) east of downtown Nashville. The 1,000-acre (400 ha)+ site was owned by Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, from 1804 until his death at the Hermitage in 1845. It also serves as his final resting place.[3] Jackson lived at the property intermittently until he retired from public life in 1837.

Not to be confused with The Hermitage Museum.

Location

4580 Rachel's Ln
Hermitage, TN 37076

1,120 acres (450 ha)[1]

1835 (current form)

Joseph Reiff and William C. Hume

Greek Revival

October 15, 1966

December 19, 1960[2]

Enslaved men, women, and children, numbering nine at the plantation's purchase in 1804[4] and 110 at Jackson's death,[5] worked at the Hermitage and were principally involved in growing cotton, its major cash crop. It is a National Historic Landmark.

Legacy[edit]

The city in Davidson County where the Hermitage is located is known as Hermitage, Tennessee. A hotel named the Hermitage Hotel, located in downtown Nashville, opened in 1910 and is still operating. Many celebrities and U.S. presidents have spent time there.[32]

The Hermitage is prominently featured in one of the opening scenes of 's unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), when the narrator, Celia, visits it with two other characters.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Hermitage was one of the filming locations and settings for the 1955 Disney film .

Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier

List of residences of presidents of the United States

National Register of Historic Places listings in Davidson County, Tennessee

List of National Historic Landmarks in Tennessee

Presidential memorials in the United States

The Hermitage website

broadcast from the Hermitage, from C-SPAN's Alexis de Tocqueville tour.

"Tocqueville in Nashville"

broadcast from the Hermitage, from C-SPAN's American Presidents: Life Portraits, April 26, 1999

"Life Portrait of Andrew Jackson"