Grand Lodge of Tennessee Free and Accepted Masons

In both 1822 and 1823, Andrew Jackson - an active mason - was elected Grant Master of the Grand Lodge of Tennessee.

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Printers Alley
Visit the historic nightclub district of the 1940's where legends like Waylon Jennings and Hank Williams performed early in their careers.
Broadway in Nashville
Lined with dozens of honky-tonk bars with live music spilling from each stage to the street nightly, Broadway is the heartbeat of the city's night life.
Tennessee State Capitol
Designed in the Greek Revival Style and located on the highest hill in the central city, the State Capitol is the seat of government for the U.S. state of Tennessee.
Tennessee Supreme Court
Andrew Jackson was a lawyer and served as a justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court form 1798 until 1804.
Hermitage Hotel
The Hermitage Hotel is a historic hotel completed in 1910 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Andrew Jackson Statue
Jackson served in the military and is celebrated for his victory in the Battle of New Orleans, and served in both houses of Congress, as a TN supreme court justice, and as US President.

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In the Footsteps of President Andrew Jackson: Private Walking Tour of Nashville
Born in the wild frontier lands of South Carolina on March 15, 1767, to impoverished Irish immigrant parents, no one could predict Andrew Jackson’s meteoric rise to military and political fame – and eventually the presidency in 1828. Popular with some and polarizing for many, learn all about the life and times of ‘Old Hickory’ in his hometown of Nashville. On your private walking tour, you will: 

  • Enjoy the personal attention of your expert private guide
  • Learn about the fascinating life and times of Andrew Jackson, the 7th President of the United States of America, as you walk around his home city of Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Begin your tour at the majestic Hermitage Hotel, and learn about Jackson’s plantation home of the same name just outside of Nashville. 
  • See the Masonic Grand Lodge of Tennessee and learn about the role of the freemasons in Jackson's life and his opponents. 
  • Marvel at the Downtown Presbyterian Church, with its Egyptian influenced architecture and where Jackson was a member. 
  • Walk around the Tennessee State Capitol, and hear about Jackson’s unlikely meteoric rise from an impoverished orphan, to a lawyer, to a war hero and finally to the president.
  • Hear about his hot-tempered duels as a young lawyer and his military exploits and amazing victories against the British as an untrained General. 
  • Tour the Tennessee State Museum with your private guide and its superb collection of Jackson’s artefacts and learn about his divisive public life as ‘the people’s politician’, army general and lawmaker, and how he split off from the Republican Whigs to form the Democratic Party. 
  • Learn about the origins of Jackson’s accumulated wealth: he was a slave owner, with up to 150 slaves on his 1000-acre plantation at any one time. 
  • Deepen your understanding of the origins of American Democracy and the colonization of the lands of the indigenous tribes in relation to Jackson’s politics, which would have ramifications for generations to come.
  • Finish your tour inside the museum after a guided tour of the highlights, where you are free to explore on your own. 

Discover the life and times of Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States, and the first to come from an impoverished background. He served in both houses and changed the face of democracy by extending the right to vote. He paid off America’s public debt for the first time in its history. He was known as the first true ‘people’s president’ to win the popular vote. His popularity was not universal, however, and he survived an assassination attempt in 1835 – by beating his would-be assassin with his walking cane. 

Andrew Jackson became wealthy on the back of slavery, owning up to 150 slaves on his 1000 acre plantation, the Hermitage, and actively opposed abolitionists. It was Jackson's policies that led to the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the displacement and massacre of thousands of Native Americans on what became known as the Trail of Tears, along which over 15000 members of the Cherokee were forced to march, and over 4000 died. The Indian Removal is a brutal legacy that would outlive him for generations to come. 

Jackson left office in 1836, and retired to the Hermitage where he died nine years later of heart failure. His parrot, Poll, had to be removed from the funeral for cursing at the mourners.
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