The Hermitage

Debts run up by Andrew Jackson Jr. forced the sale of the farm to the State of Tennessee in 1856. The state meant to offer it to Washington as a western West Point, but the Civil War stopped that. In the 1880s Tennessee built a home for indigent Confederate veterans on about 500 acres of the grounds, which closed in 1933; 489 veterans lie in the cemetery by the church. To protect the house, a group of Nashville women chartered the Ladies' Hermitage Association to run it as a public shrine. The last family occupants left in 1893.

What the plaque says

The Hermitage Home of Andrew Jackson (1767~1845), Major General in the Army, hero of the Battle of New Orleans, and seventh President of the United States. It was originally built in 1819; partially burned in 1834, during Jackson's second term, replaced by the present building in 1835. He died here, and is buried in the garden.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Andrew Jackson's Hermitage — 0.6 mi
  Andrew Jackson's cotton plantation east of Nashville, where visitors can walk to the quarters, Alfred's Cabin and the Enslaved Cemetery as well as the mansion.
• Ryman Auditorium — 9.3 mi
  The 1892 brick tabernacle in downtown Nashville that was the Grand Ole Opry's home from 1943 to 1974, now a National Historic Landmark and working concert hall.
• National Museum of African American Music — 9.4 mi
  A downtown Nashville museum, opened in 2021, tracing gospel, blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and hip-hop through Black history from 1619 to 2016.
• Civil Rights Room at the Nashville Public Library — 9.5 mi
  A room in the downtown library with a circular lunch counter, a timeline and oral histories of the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, a few blocks from the stores where they began.

More markers nearby

• Tulip Grove — 0.9 mi
• Clover Bottom — 1.8 mi
• Old Hickory Village — 3.3 mi
• Madison Adventist Origins — 4.2 mi