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Show ANDREW JACKSON'S DIG ESTATE. How He Gained 50,000 Acres at Feet In Law Case He Tried. There aro two ways of reaching tho Hermitage from Nashville either by carriage the entlro distance, or by train to tho llttlo station called Hermitage, Her-mitage, thence by conveyance or foot tho remaining threo miles. In either ense, says a writer In Four-Track Nows, the way leads among tho rugged rug-ged hills of "sunny Tennessee," through native forests which we may easily Imagine look Just as they did In tho latter part of tho eighteenth century, cen-tury, when Andrew Jackson, a young man who bad Just completed a brief and very unsystematic courso of "reading law," placed all his worldly goods and himself on tho back of his ono horso and turned his face from tho Carollnas to tho then wilderness of eastern Tennessee to make his fortune. for-tune. Tho land records of 1794-7 show that It was during those years that Jackson laid the foundation for the large estate ho afterward owned. Ho was the only lawyer In that region In tho early days days when money was scarce and land was cheap and a lawyer's fco for conducting a case of no very grent Importance might easily bo a "C40," n squaro milo of land. In a fow years he was the owner own-er of over C0.000 acres, which he acquired ac-quired while cheap and held till It advanced ad-vanced In value, when he sold part of it to enablo him to cultivate and Improve Im-prove the remnlnder. |