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Belle Meade Plantation, later renamed Belle Meade Historic Site and Winery, located in Belle Meade, Tennessee, is a historic farm in Nashville, Tennessee, built and owned for nearly a century by five generations of the Harding-Jackson family. It was established in 1807 by John Harding, who purchased 260 acres near Richland Creek on the west side of Nashville. The farm grew to 5400 acres, with its centerpiece a Greek revival home built in 1853. The entire farm was named "Belle Meade". The family's concentration on breeding thoroughbred racing stock gained a national reputation in the last half of the 19th century. During the civil war, Federal troops took Harding prisoner and imprisoned him in Michigan. Troopssacked the mansion, and were qua=rted ther for weeks. It is now operated as an attraction, museum, winery, and onsite restaurant together with outbuildings on its 30 acres of property. In the mid 19th century, the plantation encompassed roughly 5,400 acres with over a hundred enslaved persons.