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Step Back With the Historic Tennessee Tour in Nashville
Belle Meade Plantation
You'll stop to tour the stately Belle Meade Plantation, a racing horse stud farm in the 19th century and home to Iroquois, the first American horse to win the English Derby.
Step back in time and enjoy a bit slower pace on the impressive Historic Tennessee Tour. Sit in awe as you meander through the Tennessee countryside visiting historic southern plantations, presidential estates, and Civil War history. The countryside around Nashville is some of the loveliest in America. With it's rolling hills and lush green meadows and forests, a trip down these country roads is nothing short of relaxing. You'll visit the Belle Meade Plantation, known as the "Queen of the Tennessee Plantations." This impressive spread was the showpiece of a 5,200 acre plantation, famed for it's thoroughbred stud farm and nursery during the 19th century. Here, you can tour the present, 30-acre site which includes 10 outbuildings, an 1832 slave cabin, carriage house, and stables. Visit The Hermitage," former home of Andrew Jackson, our seventh president and favorite son of Tennessee. Beauty awaits on this gorgeous presidential estate. Wander through the formal gardens, visit the slave quarters, the original 1804 cabin of the estate, and Andrew Jackson and wife Rachel's burial sites. If Civil War history, beautiful countryside, and flowing southern plantations sound intriguing, this adventure is for you! Everyone in the family can enjoy the step back in time to get a glimpse at Tennessee's famed past. |
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Historic Tennessee Tour & Transportation
I loved learning about history and loved the plantations. The driver was great and he even sang to us on the bus. He was very good and very funny. He gave information about the places we were visiting and also about Nashville itself. I would love to go on this tour again, with the same driver.
-Judy Smith, Burlington, ON Belle Meade Plantation Tour
We spent so much time being lost on the freeways, and using a map that didn't work, following written directions, pulling over and getting directions, that we really didn't care if we ever made it there or not.
Once we found the Plantation, we settled down and mellowed out a bit.
The tour was ok. It's not something I'd recommend, sorry.
I've always wanted to see a southern plantation, but this fell short of my expectations.
The historical information was good.
The Plantation part of the tour was a let down. I guess it just didn't feel like a real plantation, sorry.
-Joanna Whitacre, Potlatch, ID Belle Meade Plantation Tour
Thoroughly enjoyed the tour of Belle Meade. The guide was very informed and made history come alive. One regret... we would have had lunch there had we known it was possible.
-shirley martin, washington, IL |
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