THE HERMITAGE

During the Anglo-American War of 1812-1815 (or War of 1812 or the Second War of Independence), General Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), a native of Camden, South Carolina, defeated Indians during the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814, and then the British at the Battle of New Orleans (1815). He became a hero who, in 1828, was elected 7 ^th President of the United States. The Hermitage was the property of Jackson from 1804. He finally withdrew at the end of his duties in 1837. The site consists of a house of maître maître, gradually built between 1804 and 1836, of several barracks reserved for slaves (more than 150 were simultaneously employed on the site) and 445 hectares of land. Visitor Center, museum, shop.