The newly discovered site is separate from the property’s existing marked cemetery for enslaved people, which was discovered in 2006 and belonged to a different plantation near The Hermitage.

Experts found a cemetery holding the remains of people enslaved by the seventh U.S. president and his family at Andrew Jackson's Hermitage in a location now enclosed by a black iron fence within ...

archaeological and historical experts determined an area within a 0.83-acre site on the Hermitage property. “The challenge is finding this cemetery is that the area where this is was completely ...

They found the cemetery used by the people who were enslaved at The Hermitage! (I know that sentence is a little clunky, but stick with me.) On Wednesday, the Andrew Jackson Foundation announced ...

Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage provides a glimpse of the former ... than 300 enslaved people before the Civil War." “What the cemetery does is it really connects you to the fact that slavery ...

Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, enslaved hundreds of people. Archaeologists have discovered where 28 of them were buried. When you purchase through links on our site ...