Recently, the Andrew Jackson Foundation made a significant discovery at The Hermitage, the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson. After years of being lost to time, the foundation believes they have located the slave cemetery where at least 26 enslaved individuals were laid to rest between 1804 and 1865.
The search for the cemetery was guided by an old agricultural report from the 1930s, which hinted at an area with tall trees and graves that had not been cultivated. With the assistance of an anonymous donor, archaeologist James Greene conducted a thorough investigation that led to the identification of the burial site.
