Plantations of Andrew Jackson

Hunter's Hill (1796–1804, 1833–1840)

Hunter's Hill was a plantation near Nashville where Jackson used "slave labor to cultivate cotton." Jackson paid John Shannon of Logan County, Kentucky $700 for the 640-acre property in March 1796. He sold Hunter's Hill for $10,000, plus livestock, to Edward Ward on July 6, 1804. Jackson repurchased Hunter's Hill in 1833 but sold it in 1840 to help pay debts owed by his son Andrew Jackson Jr.

The Hermitage (1804–1845)

Jackson paid Nathaniel Hays $4,500 for the 450-acre Hermitage property on August 23, 1804. The property was ultimately expanded to 2,000-acre holding. The family originally lived in log cabins but eventually built the mansion, the first version of which burned on October 13, 1834, during Jackson's second term as president and six years after Rachel Jackson's death. In 1835, Jackson's nephew Andrew Jackson Donelson built Tulip Grove across the road, originally called the Lebanon Pike, now U.S. Route 70N.

Melton's Bluff plantation (1816–1827)

Melton's Bluff was located on the south bank of the Tennessee River, opposite its confluence with Elk River, in what is today Lawrence County, Alabama. Jackson and his nephew and business partner John Hutchings bought Melton's Bluff, a well-developed cotton plantation, and two slaves, from the bicultural-Cherokee Melton family on November 22, 1816. Hutchings died of illness in 1817. Jackson seemingly moved on to other holdings shortly thereafter, and sold off what remained of his Melton's Bluff holding in 1827.

Evans Spring plantation (1818–1821)

Evans Spring was located on the north side of the Tennessee River, near Florence, Alabama in Lauderdale County. Jackson bought it in March 1818, and sold it to Richard C. Cross for US$7,500 (equivalent to $181,406 in 2025) on September 20, 1821.

Big Spring plantation (1818–1822)

Big Spring was located further west in the Tennessee River valley, in the vicinity of what is now Tuscumbia, Alabama. Jackson bought the Big Spring land in 1818 and 1821. He moved his stock (slaves and animals) there in November 1821. He sold it to Anthony Winston Jr. on November 22, 1822; Winston reported in 1828 that he had paid US$6,976 (equivalent to $187,480 in 2025) for Big Spring.

Halcyon plantation (1838–1845)

Jackson backed the business enterprises of his son Andrew Jackson Jr. including Junior's 1838 purchase of 1,200 acres of riverfront land in Coahoma County, Mississippi. The Halcyon plantation was a debt-soaked and river-flooded disaster that Junior sold four years after his father's death in 1849.