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Cotton Plantation

on July 11, 2010 – 6:46 am

Proceeding up a long avenue flanked with pine trees, the house is reached. This house is of the type so familiar in the days of the Colonial period up to just before the Civil War as a residence of the well-to-do. In these houses the owners of broad acres lived a life of dignified ease and luxury surrounded by large families, supplemented by numbers of guests. Surrounding the house are grouped the slaves quarters and other dependent buildings, while at one side is a beautiful old-fashioned garden, full of carefully tended plants and shrubs. The Hermitage, Home of President Andrew Jackson, is one of the largest and most visited presidential homes in the United States. At the time of Jackson’s death, 161 slaves operated the cotton plantation and resided in dozens of slave cabins scattered about the 1,050-acre plantation. Read full story.

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