OK - here is the last post pertaining to our Nashville trip. On Saturday, our second stop was to the
Belle Meade Plantation, which was founded in 1807 by John and Susannah Harding. It was originally a thoroughbred horse farm. The mansion was built in 1853 by their son, General William Harding. He had two daughters who married two brothers, William and Howell Jackson, and in total, four generations of this family lived at Belle Meade.
In 1953, the mansion and several outbuildings were deeded to the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities. While we visited, a wedding was being set up - and what a venue! Talk about a photographer's dream!! It has everything - great light, multiple locations for shooting, lots of texture...
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| Danne pulls a Minnie Pearl, trying on a smokin' hot hat in the Belle Meade gift shop. |
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| One of the many carriages in the Belle Meade Carriage House |
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| This is the smokehouse as seen from the back side. I like the pattern in the bricks. |
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| Resting place of Enquirer, one of the stallions that made Belle Meade famous. |
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| View of the front of Belle Meade. I read that the columns still have bullet scars from a Civil War battle fought on the front lawn. |
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| The dairy building |
This wraps up our visit to Nashville. All in all, it was good times with great friends. We enjoyed an uneventful flight home to snowy, blustery, cold Minnesota. The location for next year's Culver's Reunion is Phoenix.
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