Andrew Jackson

📍The Hermitage, 4580 Rachel's Lane, Nashville, TN 37076, USA

“I was born on the frontier between the Carolinas and was an orphan by fourteen: my father died before I was born, and my mother died of disease nursing prisoners in the Revolutionary War, in which I was captured and slashed by a British officer for refusing to clean his boots. In 1804 Rachel and I bought a farm of 425 acres twelve miles east of Nashville, and for seventeen years we lived in a log house there. Rachel chose the meadow where the brick mansion was built, and she planted the garden I loved. The Hermitage was a cotton plantation, and its fields were worked by enslaved people — ten in 1794, a hundred and fifty by the time I died, and some three hundred across my family's lifetime — who lived in small log and brick cabins near the house. That is a truth of this place that must not be separated from its history; a burial ground for enslaved people here was rediscovered in 2024. Rachel died just before I became president. We are buried side by side in her garden.”

Sources: thehermitage.com Wikipedia: The Hermitage (Nashville,_Tennessee) news.vanderbilt.edu