| Show ANDREW JACKSONS JACKSON S BIG 1310 ESTATE ae how he gained acres as fee fees in law cases he tried there are two ways ol 01 reaching the hermitage from nashville either by carriage the entire distance or by train to the little station called her milage thence by conveyance or foot the remaining three miles in either ease case says a writer in four track news nevis the way leads among the rug ged hills ot of sunny tennessee through native forests which we may easily imagine look just as they did dt de in i n the latter part of the eighteenth cen n tury when andrew jacas jackson on a young man wha had just completed a briet brief and very unsystematic course ol 01 reading law placed all bis his worldly goods and himself on the bach back of his one horse and turned bis his face from the carolinas Caroll nas to the then wilderness ol 01 eastern tennessee to make his tor for tune the land records ot of 1794 7 show that it was during those years that jackson laid the foundation for the large estate he afterward owned he ile was the only lawyer in that region in the early days days when money was scarce and land was cheap and a lawyers tee fee tor for conducting a case ot of no very great importance might easily be a a square mile ot of land in a few years he was the own er ot of over 50 acres which be he acquired required while cheap and held till it ad danced in value when he be sold part ol 01 it to enable him to cultivate and ila prove the remainder |
