We got up early and decided to start the day at the Factory in Franklin. I had never been there and didn't know what to expect but it sounded cool so why not. Mom found a place to paint your own pottery so we went over there to do that. When we got there we found out it was more like a place to go with kids and it was painting your own ceramics and not really what we expected so we opted out of that and just decided to walk around and look at art and the other little shops inside.
We found a big chair and took turns getting our picture taken in it. How fun!
After the Factory in Franklin and walking around the shops in the square we had lunch with Tom at Mcreary's Irish pub and then headed down to the plantation in Franklin. This was the home of a very wealthy family in the early 1800's who allowed the confederates to use their house for a hospital in one of the bloodiest battles in the Civil War.
After the war the family decided to raise money around town to gather up the bodies of the soldier, both Union and Confederate and use 2 acres of their land as a cemetery. We walked through the cemetery with almost 1,500 soldiers buried there, many of which are still unidentified.
After the war the family decided to raise money around town to gather up the bodies of the soldier, both Union and Confederate and use 2 acres of their land as a cemetery. We walked through the cemetery with almost 1,500 soldiers buried there, many of which are still unidentified.
We walked through the McGavock's garden which is magnificent. This is the grape vine hallway!! It's so beautiful, when I have my acrage, Tom is going to have to build me one of these because I just love it. We also toured the house but were unable to take pictures in there. I was a very similar place as the Hermitage that we went to with Patrick and Soumya. This was better though because you got to go into the rooms so you could see stuff a lot better. The only problem was it was very dusty and hard to breath in there.
This is a male version of a hedge apple tree (didn't know there was a difference). This one is original with the house and the male's grow thorns instead of apples and they used these like barbed wire fence. kind of cool, huh!
The tree was huge!!! I found a nice little place in there to take a seat :)
After the tour of the plantation everyone was tired and ready to go home. We got the the house and hung out outside with the dogs and had a real light dinner. After dinner we just sat around in the living room chatting and because we were so tired, headed to bed early to get rested up for our next day.
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