Historic Sites - Belle Meade Plantation
15 Belle Meade Plantation
- Belle Meade Mansion, a Tennessee plantation home.
Known as "Queen of Tennessee Plantations," the Harding family’s Belle Meade Plantation, once over 5,300 acres, was world-renowned as a thoroughbred stud farm in the nineteenth century. It was the home of Iroquois, until 1954 the only American-bred winner of the English Derby, which he won in 1881. John Harding bought Dunham’s Station and the tract of land around it in 1807 and built a brick house on the site. William Giles Harding, John's son, extensively remodeled and enlarged the house after a fire in 1853. Confederate General James R. Chalmers had temporary headquarters here while some of the fighting of the Battle of Nashville raged on the front lawn. The site includes the original Dunham Station log cabin, the mansion restored to the 1850s, stables and carriage house, and other outbuildings. Costumed interpreters give guided tours of the Greek Revival house, the grounds, and outbuildings.
Belle Meade Plantation
Web Site
5025 Harding Road, Nashville, TN 37205
(615) 356-0501
