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December 30, 1969. 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 farm, named "Belle Meade" (beautiful meadow), grew to encompass 5,400 ...
John Harding (1777–1867) was an American Southern planter and thoroughbred breeder in Middle Tennessee, near Nashville. He developed Belle Meade Plantation from 250 acres to 1300 in Davidson County; Bellevue at McSpadden's Bend on the Cumberland River, also in the county; and a 10,000-acre cotton plantation at Plum Point Bend in Mississippi County, Arkansas.
William Giles Harding. William Giles Harding (1808 – December 15, 1886) was a Southern planter, attorney, and horse breeder who was made a Brigadier General in the Tennessee militia before the American Civil War. He took over operations of Belle Meade Plantation near Nashville from his father in 1839. During the course of his management, he ...
Belle Meade is a city in Davidson County, Tennessee. Its total land area is 3.1 square miles (8.0 km 2), and its population was 2,901 at the time of the 2020 census. [5][6] Belle Meade operates independently as a city, complete with its own regulations, a city hall, and police force, but it is also integrated with the Nashville government. [7]
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 ...
Biography, History, Architecture, Business. William Ridley Wills II (born June, 1934) is an American author and historian living in Nashville, Tennessee, who has authored 34 historical and biographical books as of 2024. He received the Tennessee History Book Award in 1991 for his first book, The History of Belle Meade: Mansion, Plantation and Stud.
Jackson was fond of the sport of live bird wing shooting, and he founded the Belle Meade Gun Club on his farm in 1897. [6] It hosted the Wing Shot Championship of the United States in 1898. [7] William Hicks Jackson died at Belle Meade in 1903 and was buried in the family's mausoleum in the plantation's cemetery.
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