Belle Meade Plantation is a historic location in Nashville, TN. It is 200 years old and it was best known for breeding the best thoroughbred horses in U.S. history. When the Civil War came about, the plantation was producing some of the vest racing horses in the United States. Many of the horses racing in the Kentucky Derby to this day can be traced back to the Belle Made Plantation. Today Belle Made Plantation operates as a nonprofit to preserve its history and provide an opportunity for people to experience how life was life in the nineteenth century(Ferrell, O., Thorne, D., & Ferrell, L. ,2016). Belle Meade has continued to historic preservation through tourist ticket sales, hosting events, corporate donations, and gift shop sales. In 2004,