Education
Programs
Student Field Trips to Historic Carnton Plantation
Planning a field trip for your students?
It couldn’t be
easier. Preserved as a living classroom of American history,
Carnton is best known for its significant role
as a field hospital during
the November 30, 1864 Battle of Franklin. The floors are stained
with the blood of hundreds of wounded and dying soldiers.
Your students
will glimpse antebellum life on a Tennessee plantation as they
walk through furnished rooms and explore original outbuildings
consisting of slave quarters, smokehouse and spring house and the
restored 1847 Italianate garden.
They will also visit the McGavock
family cemetery and the McGavock Confederate Cemetery, where almost
1,500 soldiers were buried a
year and a half after the Battle of Franklin. Students will gain
an understanding of how the cemetery came to be and learn the personal
stories of some of the soldiers buried there.
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Length of Tour - 90
minutes (time may be adjusted)
COST:
Kindergarden - 5th grade $4.00
6th grade - 8th grade $5.00
9th grade - College $8.00
Chaperones/Parents $8.00
Teachers Free
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To Book a Field Trip
Make
your reservations: please call us at (615) 794-0903 or email
Katie@carnton.org. Have a couple of dates in mind when you are
making your reservation; you will receive a confirmation by mail
or fax within a week that details your field trip. Be sure to call
with any questions.
Payment - The total fee must be made the day of arrival in the
form of cash, check, or credit card. Please have the total number
of students confirmed. Chaperones may pay separately.
Lunch on grounds - Students may eat on the spacious lawn and they
will need to provide blankets, etc. to sit on. In case of inclement
weather, children may eat on the outside porch or return to their
buses.
Museum Gift Shop - Students may visit the gift shop after their
tour. Teachers or chaperones are required to accompany the students
into the shop.
