Belle Meade is a city in Davidson County, Tennessee. Its sum land Place is 3.1 square miles (8.0 km), and its population was 2,912 at the period of the 2010 census.

Belle Meade operates independently as a city, complete considering its own regulations, a city hall, and police force, but it is as well as integrated in imitation of the Nashville government. Developed in part upon the territory of the former Belle Meade plantations, residential areas are suburban in the freshen of tree-lined streets and wooded areas. The median annual income of Belle Meade residents is $195,208, which exceeds the median annual allowance in the U.S. by higher than three times.

The city’s records dates back to 1807, when John Harding of Virginia purchased the Dunham’s Station log cabin and 250 acres (100 ha) on the Natchez Trace close Richland Creek. He named the property Belle Meade, which is French for “beautiful meadow”. Over the next-door few decades, enslaved African Americans built Harding’s mansion, and usual a thoroughbred breeding farm and cotton plantation. He conducted various further businesses upon the property, including a grist and motto mill, a cotton gin, and a blacksmith shop – all primarily operated by enslaved African-Americans.

Harding’s son, William Giles Harding, a Confederate veteran, inherited the home in the innovative 19th century and renamed it as Belle Meade Plantation. In 1906, debt irritated the Harding relatives to sell Belle Meade. Belle Meade Land Company built the first road and in 1938 developed the neighborhood that received the City of Belle Meade. The mansion was converted into a museum. On December 30, 1969, it was listed upon the National Register of Historic Places (#69000177).