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To: jay1949

I visited the Hermitage in 1995 and remember the slave cabin, but it looked like a modern reconstruction, not an original building from the time that Andrew Jackson lived there.


6 posted on 05/29/2010 8:15:39 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
....it looked like a modern reconstruction....

Aside from the actual logs (eastern red cedar) I seriously doubt that the rest of the building is authentic to 1840. For incidence, I doubt that a slave cabin in Tennessee would have had a wood floor. Most of the cabins I've seen around here that still exist have dirt floors.

17 posted on 05/29/2010 9:31:09 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Stop the insanity - Flush Congress!)
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