As for Lady Jane and my 3rd and final metropolis of our spring Volunteer Point out trip, Nashville, after we protected the 212 miles from Memphis and attained the outskirts, we’d prepared a tour of Andrew Jackson’s estate, Hermitage, 12 miles east of the town.

There is a museum, wherever there is a lot to examine and hear about Jackson and especially about his victory at the Battle of New Orleans, and, of program, the mansion. In addition, there are indicators that immediate you to other elements of the 400-acre estate, in which numerous farming operations have been executed and where by the subject hands’ dwelling quarters foundational outlines could continue to be seen.

The narrated tour of the mansion was especially enlightening as to what each day existence was right here, both equally prior to Jackson’s two-term presidency and following he returned in 1837, regrettably, with out the prospect to live out his times with his beloved spouse Rachel, who died of a heart ailment all through a contentious marketing campaign prior to Jackson’s first phrase.

A lot of what was in the mansion was first, which include the wallpaper, the flooring and the home furniture, which Jane and I assumed very extraordinary for a creating more than 175 many years previous.

When the tour reached the back again porch and walkthrough that divided the kitchen from the formal dining room (to maintain the warmth out of the residence), my sunglasses, perched on my ball cap, slipped off the