(a) The object for which this trust is created is to permit and encourage the Ladies’ Hermitage Association to preserve and beautify the property herein conveyed, in trust, and to keep the property in such state of preservation as the association may deem best so as to display the respect, love and affection that a grateful state and people cherish for their illustrious hero and statesman, Andrew Jackson.
State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b)(1) It is furthermore the object of this trust to permit and encourage the association to do all things deemed necessary or advisable by the association to elucidate the history of the time of Andrew Jackson, his life and works and the place thereof in American history.(2) These activities may include, but shall not be limited to, the support of scholarly publications and other educational activities, the acquisition of related real and personal property and the maintenance and exhibition thereof.(3) Any property so acquired including, but not limited to, that property known as Tulip Grove, shall be held in trust in the same manner as the trust established for the Hermitage Farm in § 4-13-101.(4) Except as otherwise provided in this part, the association has all rights and powers in and to the property conveyed in this part and any earnings or proceeds therefrom as though the property were conveyed in fee simple absolute.(c) As used in this part, “association” means the Ladies’ Hermitage Association.
