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Belle Meade Plantation, now officially titled Belle Meade Historic Site and Winery, is a historic farm established in 1807 in Nashville, Tennessee, built, owned, and controlled by five generations of the Harding-Jackson family for nearly a century.
The mansion was built in 1832 as a wedding present from John Harding, the owner of the Belle Meade Plantation, to his daughter, Elizabeth and her husband, Joseph Clay. [3] It was designed in the Federal architectural style, with pine and ash-tree wood floors. [3]
Old Governor's Mansion. June 5, 1972 : 1234 E. Broad St. No: 130 † Old North End Historic District ... Tosheff's Restaurant and Hotel: March 2, 2001 : 1943-1953 ...
Much of the large former Belle Meade plantation was developed as a residential suburb by a land company, starting in 1938; today that area is called Belle Meade and is an independent city. The mansion and 30 acres were reserved for use as a private residence until 1953, when it was purchased by the state of Tennessee.
The West Meade neighborhood includes land which was once part of the Belle Meade Plantation. West Meade, named because it was the Western portion of Belle Meade Plantation, was the home of Justice Howell Edmunds Jackson and his wife, Mary Elizabeth (née Harding). [3] It was not until 1944 that Mary and Howell Jackson's children sold West Meade ...
Roughly bounded by the Little Harpeth River, Belle Meade Boulevard, State Route 100, and Chickering Rd. 36°03′47″N 86°53′30″W / 36.063056°N 86.891667°W / 36.063056; -86.891667 ( Warner Park Historic
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The mansion was built in 1886 [3] [4] [5] for Howell Edmunds Jackson (1832–1895) and his wife Mary Elizabeth (née Harding), second daughter and last child of William Giles Harding (1808–1886), owner of the Belle Meade Plantation. Harding had given them a tract of 2600 acres in the western section of his 5400-acre plantation. [5]