Plantations in Mid Tennessee

Rippavilla Plantation is probably the closest plantation to us which is open to the public. We recently took advantage of a special tour on the life of the slaves there.
Quite a contrast in the housing....




Another plantation we visited recently was Belmont, located at the Belmont University, in Nashville. Once owned by one of the richest women in the 19th century, it was one of five plantations she owned. Seems she was quite an astute businesswoman, at one time, working the north and south against each other when selling her cotton. She eventually sold it for a million dollars to England. She had it deposited in London and spent a year in Europe when she picked it up.