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Fairvue Plantation - Sumner TN

Page history last edited by PBworks 16 years ago


 

Overview

 

Location

Gallatin, Sumner Co, TN. Gallatin is about 25 miles north of Nashville off of Vietnam Veteran's Parkway (a connector to I-65 north of Nashville). Fairvue Plantation is on Gallatin Road (runs from Nashville to Gallatin) just south of Gallatin.

 

As of 2007 Fairvue Plantation is a high-end subdivision on Old Hickory Lake. Anyone may drive around in the subdivision and see the historic buildings as well as the new high end homes (costing from $400,000 to $2 million each).

 

Date Constructed/ Founded

1832

 

Associated Surnames

not determined

 

Historical notes

After his 1836 retirement, slave trader Isaac Franklin bought Fairvue Plantation for his home. It was a 2,000 acre property. The plantation was used to raise cattle and race horses. Mr. Franklin also bought eight probably adjoining plantations on about 8,700 acres in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana collectively known as Angola. The individual plantations were Belleview, Killarney, Loch Lomond, Angola (Angora), Loango, Panola and Monrovia. He owned 750 slaves. Most worked on the Louisiana plantations. Isaac married Adelica Hayes. When he died in 1846 Adelica got everything - valued at one million dollars.

 

Adelica remarried to Joseph Acklin who trippled the fortune to three million dollars. Joseph and Adelica Acklin's summer house in Nashville - about 25 miles south of Fairvue Planation - was the 36 room 19,000 square foot Belmont Mansion. The mansion had a 9,500 square foot ground floor "service floor" where many slaves worked. The mansion is now part of the Belmont College Campus on Wedgewood Avenue in Nashville and is open for tours. However, the service floor is not yet part of the tour). Adelica's second husband - Joseph Acklin - died in 1863 in LA while touring the plantations.

 

Right after her second husband's death during the Civil War Adeilca managed to get the 3,000 bales of cotton from her Louisiana plantations sold and transported to Europe for which she received one million dollars. Next she married a Dr. Cheatham. Adelica was one of the richest women in the country. After the Civil War, Adelica sold the Louisiana Plantations which eventually wound up in the hands of the State of Louisiana. Louisiana consolidated them to form the core of Angola Prison.

 

An on-line history of Fairvue Plantation is at http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=F001a .

 

Associated Slave Workplaces

  • Belmont Plantation in Nashville, TN
  • Belleview, Killarney, Loch Lomond, Angola (Angora), Loango, Panola and Monrovia Plantations in Louisiana


 

Associated Free Persons

 

  • Isaac Franklin and his wife Adelica
  • Adelica Franklin and her second husband Joseph Acklin


 

Associated Enslaved Persons

 

  • none recorded yet


 

Research Leads and Plantation Records

 

  • none reported yet


 

Miscellaneous Information

 

  • none


 

References

 


 

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