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Belle Mead is another plantation in Nashville and was in its prime at the same time as the Hermitage. No cotton at this plantation; they bred and raced horses. They had a thoroughbred named Bonnie Scotland. It seems that, in the past several years, every horse that has run in the Kentucky Derby is a direct descendent of Bonnie Scotland.
There were similarities between the Hermitage and Belle Mead. Both mansions were built in the same architectural style, both mansions had a large front hallway with doors at either end that could be opened for a cross-breeze, both had the main staircase in the front hall (these are nothing as grand as you see in “Gone with the Wind”, but very ornate nonetheless), both had slave quarters, and, of course, both had slaves. (See the previous entry for my “soap box” comments.)
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Patrick Are you SURE it's raining? Or was it just that 125% southern humidity? I can never tell the difference, myself ;)