The Hermitage, Home of General Andrew JacksonDorris, Mary C. (Mary C. Currey)
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The Hermitage, Home of General Andrew Jackson
Dorris, Mary C. (Mary C. Currey)
Hermitage (Hermitage, Tenn.); Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 -- Homes and haunts -- Tennessee -- Hermitage
1832 November Re-elected President of the United States.
1832 December 10 Issued proclamation to nullifiers of South
Carolina.
1833 June 26 Harvard College conferred the degree of LL.D.
1833 September 23 Ordered withdrawal of deposits from the Bank of
the United States.
1834 Hermitage damaged by fire; repaired. No changes
since.
1834 March 28 Censured by Senate by resolution for removing
public deposits from the Bank of the United States.
1835 December 29 Treaty with the Cherokee Indians for their removal
to Indian Territory.
1835 January 8 Proclaimed the payment in full of national debt of
the United States.
1837 January 16 Resolution passed in the Senate expunging the
resolution of censure of 1834.
1837 March 4 Issued farewell address to people of the United
States.
1839 Became a member of the Presbyterian Church near
the Hermitage.
1840 January 18 Visited New Orleans.
1845 June 8 Sunday, at 6 P.M., died.
1845 June 10 Buried by the side of Mrs. Jackson at the
Hermitage.
_The Carriage House_
In 1897, Col. Andrew Jackson, from whom most of the relics were
purchased, sold to the Association the interesting old coach used by
Jackson at the White House for state, ceremonial, and social purposes
and for several trips to the Hermitage. The trip to the Hermitage took
thirty days’ time. His journeys were a continual ovation.
The skeleton of the phaeton is all that is left of the beautiful vehicle
presented to General Jackson by the “Democratic-Republican” citizens of
Philadelphia. It was made from timbers taken from the old ship
Constitution. The phaeton in which General Jackson rode with Martin Van
Buren to the latter’s inauguration was damaged by fire in Cincinnati,
where the Jackson relics were stored before being acquired by the
Ladies’ Hermitage Association. (Photograph is on wall.)
Stone doorstep in front of carriage house was presented to Col. W. W.
Parks by General Jackson. Given to the Ladies’ Hermitage Association by
his granddaughters, Misses Annie and Grace Handly.
Display boards on the walls show photostats of the Library of Congress
letters of Rachel Jackson, personal accounts of life at the Hermitage
taken from letters and histories, and pamphlets relating to the life and
times of President Andrew Jackson, presented to the Hermitage by C.
Lawrence Winn, great-grandson of Andrew Jackson, Jr.
Anvil, used in shoeing General Jackson’s race horses.
Carpenter’s plane, said to have been used by William McCreary in
building the Hermitage. Given by Stanley F. Horn.
_The Museum_
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