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Williams Middleton's daughter, Elizabeth, inherited Middleton Place in 1900, and made minor restorations. Upon her death in 1915, she left the plantation to her cousin, John Julius Pringle Smith (Smith was a great-great-great-grandson of Henry Middleton). Smith and his wife, Heningham, used Middleton Place as their winter residence.
Ashley's sack was purchased for $20 at a flea market in Nashville in the early 2000s. Alarmed by the embroidered story of a slave sale separating a mother and her daughter, the woman who purchased the sack did an Internet search for "slavery" and "Middleton" and then gifted the sack to Middleton Place. [6]
It was then lost for several years, until being rediscovered at a flea market in Nashville, Tennessee in 2007. The sack was displayed at Middleton Place (a former slave plantation in South Carolina, now a museum) and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC, until 2021.
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is offering Nashville-area residents a "pay-what-you-can" entry fee during Dec. of 2023 and Jan. of 2024.
Travellers Rest, also known as Golgotha, [2] is a former plantation and historic plantation house, located in Nashville, Tennessee. The first owner of the site was John Overton in 1796, who built the first family home in 1799. [2] For many years this plantation was worked and maintained by enslaved Black people. [3] [4]
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
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It was built in 1822 for John Nichols. [2] It is an English regency style home reminiscent of Middleton Place near Charleston, South Carolina. [2] After Nichols's daughter Nancy (1808–1844) married Willoughby Williams Jr. (1798–1882), son of Willoughby Williams and President of the Bank of Tennessee, it became their home.