Isaac Franklin Plantation

Fairvue
Formerly listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Former U.S. National Historic Landmark
Fairvue in 1971
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Nearest city	Gallatin, Tennessee
Coordinates	36°20′41″N 86°29′36″W
Area	560 acres (230 ha)
Built	1832
NRHP reference No.	75002162[1]
Removed from NRHP	April 04, 2005

Isaac Franklin Plantation, also known as Fairvue, is an antebellum plantation house in Gallatin, Tennessee.

Fairvue Plantation was built in 1832 for Isaac Franklin (1789–1846). Franklin retired to be a planter there after a career as a partner in the largest slave-trading firm in the South prior to the Civil War.

After his death, the property was inherited by his widow, Adelicia Acklen. The land of the former estate was long cultivated for agriculture.[2]

Fairvue was named a National Historic Landmark in 1977.

The Club at Fairvue Plantation opened in 2004.[3] In 2005, the house's historic landmark status was withdrawn due to development that had damaged its historic integrity. [4]

Much of the plantation property was developed for a gated community of large, luxury suburban mansions.[5]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. "History of Belmont Mansion". Belmont Mansion. Retrieved October 29, 2017.
3. Ball, Edward (November 2015). "Retracing Slavery's Trail of Tears". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
4. Withdrawal of Isaac Franklin Plantation
5. Bloodlines of the Slave Trade (2023), documentary film by Markie Hancock.

External links

Media related to Isaac Franklin Plantation at Wikimedia Commons