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The Hermitage landscape changed over more than 200 years from an Indian hunting and farming ground, sustained by two natural springs, into a frontier farm after white Americans and their slaves settled there around 1798, and then into a busy plantation during Andrew Jackson's life, where enslaved workers labored in the fields and house, cotton served as the main cash crop, and the farm produced nearly everything needed for a community of almost 200 people; after the Civil War, change continued from both within the property and the growing city around it.
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Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance), Tennessee · United States
