Historic Sites - The Hermitage
16 The Hermitage
- Andrew Jackson's Hermitage
When Andrew Jackson died in this house in 1845, he left it to his adopted son with instructions that if he should need to sell it to offer it first to the state of Tennessee. In 1856 the state bought the home and 500 acres for $48,000. In 1889, the Ladies Hermitage Association was formed to preserve it as a memorial to Jackson, 7th president of the United States, and hero of the Battle of New Orleans. In his public life, Jackson is best known for his fight to defeat the Second Bank of the United States and for the controversial removal of the Indians from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. The site includes the mansion and formal gardens, tombs of Jackson and his wife Rachel, original log cabins, a smokehouse, spring house, old Hermitage Church, Tulip Grove Mansion, and a visitors center. The Greek Revival mansion, built in 1819, enlarged in 1831, and rebuilt after an 1834 fire, is furnished largely with pieces owned by Jackson.
The Hermitage Web Site
4580 Rachel’s Lane,
Hermitage, TN 37076
(615) 889-2941
