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Historic Homes of Nashville
Belle Meade Plantation and Belmont Mansion
Thursday, January 10
8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m
$64.25per person
Belle Meade Plantation
 Belle Meade Plantation represents a full 100-year span of Tennessee history and architecture. Today, 30-acres remain of the once 5,400-acre plantation, making this one of the South's most outstanding showplaces. On the National Register of Historic Places, Belle Meade Mansion had been beautifully restored to reflect the sumptuous elegance of the 19th century. Elaborately furnished with antiques and art of the period, Belle Meade brings to life true antebellum Tennessee. Visit the mansion's colossal carriage house, which is filled with restored antique carriages, and see the stables, which once housed some of horse racing's finest lineage. The garden, smokehouse, and dairy give a glimpse of the practical and pastoral side of life at one of the South's most interesting and visually rewarding showplaces. Come and meet the "Old South" at the queen of Tennessee plantations!
Belmont Mansion
 Next, it is off to Belmont Mansion, located on Nashville's Belmont University Campus for a spectacular look at an 1850's Italian villa built by the savvy Adelicia Acklen. A woman of great wealth, Adelicia claimed extensive land holdings in Tennessee, Los Angeles and Texas. Bold and beautiful, she managed to outwit Union and Confederate troops, enabling the rare sale of cotton during the war, netting her nearly $1 million dollars. The Grand Salon is considered to be the most elaborate domestic room built in antebellum Tennessee. The mansion contains an outstanding collection of original marble and the largest collection of 19th century cast iron garden ornaments in the United States. ome writers have said that if there really were a Scarlett O'Hara, she would have been Adelicia Acklen. You are invited to come hear her story.
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