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Historical notes

After his 1836 retirement, slave trader Isaac Franklin bought Fairview Plantation for his home. He bought eight plantations in Louisiana - Belleview, Killarney, Loch Lomond, Angola (Angora), Loango, Panola and Monrovia. He married Adelica Hayes. When Isaac died in 1846 Adelica got everything - valued at one million dollars. Adelica remarried to Joseph Acklin who trippled the fortune to three million dollars. Joseph and Adelica Acklin's summer house in Nashville near Fairview Planation was the 36 room 19,000 square foot Belmont Mansion. They owned 750 slaves. Most worked on the Louisiana Plantations, but some worked in the approximately 10,000 sq foot ground floor "service floor" of Belmont Mantion. Joseph died in 1863 in LA. Right after her second husband's death during the Civil War Adeilca managed to get the 3,000 bales of cotton from her Louisiana plantations sold and transported to Europe for which she received one million dollars. Next she married a Dr. Cheatham. Adelica was one of the richest women in the country. After the Civil War, Adelica sold the Louisiana Plantations which eventually wound up in the hands of the State of Louisiana. Louisiana consolidated them to form the core of Angola Prison.

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References

• http://www.blueshoenashville.com/mansion2.html

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