Museum
Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage
Greek Revival plantation mansion and gardens where a president kept a foul-mouthed pet parrot.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Andrew Jackson's Hermitage in Nashville, Tennessee centers on the garden beside the mansion, where Rachel Jackson was buried in eighteen twenty-eight and Andrew Jackson himself was laid to rest beside her in eighteen forty-five. It follows the household's grey parrot, Poll, bought as a gift for Rachel and kept close by Jackson afterward, and the one disputed eyewitness account of what the bird did amid the mourners at his funeral. Stand at the tomb behind the garden's hedges to see where the story unfolded.
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