Andrew Jackson's Hermitage
The mansion, cabins, fields, cemetery, museum, and archaeology interpret Andrew Jackson’s political life alongside the labor and family histories of more than 150 enslaved people.
Artwork inspired by William Edmondson
The site’s contradictions are the subject: populist political identity, Indigenous removal, wealth, military power, and plantation slavery cannot be separated. The surviving landscape helps show how domestic elegance depended on coerced labor and commodity production.
Choose the mansion tour for interiors, but give equal time to the Field Quarter and archaeology. Audio options support self-paced grounds exploration; summer heat and distance make water and a deliberate route important.
- mansion tour
- Guided access to original rooms
- Field Quarter
- Slavery interpreted where people lived
- Rachel Jackson garden
- Personal landscape and burial place
Quick guide
- First move
- At Andrew Jackson's Hermitage, begin with mansion tour: The mansion, cabins, fields, cemetery, museum, and archaeology interpret Andrew Jackson’s political life alongside the labor and family histories of more than 150 enslaved people.
- Second look
- Field Quarter: The site’s contradictions are the subject: populist political identity, Indigenous removal, wealth, military power, and plantation slavery cannot be separated.
Build the visit around three specific anchors
- Start with
- mansion tour: The mansion, cabins, fields, cemetery, museum, and archaeology interpret Andrew Jackson’s political life alongside the labor and family histories of more than 150 enslaved people.
- Look closely at
- Field Quarter: The site’s contradictions are the subject: populist political identity, Indigenous removal, wealth, military power, and plantation slavery cannot be separated.
- Connect the story
- Rachel Jackson garden: A presidential home that must include the plantation.
- Plan around
- Choose the mansion tour for interiors, but give equal time to the Field Quarter and archaeology.
Good to know
Andrew Jackson's Hermitage: audio options support self-paced grounds exploration; summer heat and distance make water and a deliberate route important.
Notice these
- mansion tour
- Field Quarter
- Rachel Jackson garden