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06/1/2007 |
Our location - Belle Meade, TN
The Belle Meade Plantation |
Belle Meade, meaning beautiful meadow, is a 30 acre site west of Nashville. The grounds include the Greek Revival mansion built in
1853. The original size of the plantation was 5400 acres, one of the largest private land holdings in Tennessee.
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Belle Meade. |
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Five generations of the Harding-Jackson family lived here from 1807-1903. |
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The Smokehouse. It is very obvious that at the old plantations, the smokehouse was almost as critical as the main house,
since the smokehouse provided the place for the preservation of meat. |
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The Gardener's building with hothouse. The plantation had a daily supply of flowers. |
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Slave housing. |
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The business of Belle Meade was breeding and training thoroughbred race horses. Kentucky Derby winners Funny Cide and
Barbarro and notorious horses, Secretariat and Sea Biscuit can trace their bloodlines to Belle Meade stock. This was the Carriage House. |
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And they have quite a collection of original carriages. |
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The Nashville Art Museum is housed in The Parthenon...an exact replica of the original Parthenon in Athens, Greece. |
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