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Jackson's Hermitage Visit Reveals Enduring Fame and Neglect
A Nashville writer tours the Hermitage, detailing the Jackson family home life, portraits, and relics. He recounts the general's hospitality, his marriage to Rachel Jackson, and the enduring monument to Old Hickory, while lamenting neglect and the fate of the estate, now state property.
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Bergher
Nashville
Washington
Polk
Jackson
Alfred
Telemachus
Cass
Livingston
Woodbury
Marquis de LaFayette
Andrew Jackson
Earle
Scalinger
Lewis Robarts
Virginia
Mercer County
Roberts
Grace
Hermitage
Rachael Jackson
State of
Tennessee
Irving
Ohio
Uncle Game
Landon