Behind the mansion, the property includes a smokehouse that date to the early 19th century. The large brick smokehouse at the rear of the kitchen was built in 1831 and cured of pork a year. Nearby is a slave cabin known as Uncle Alfred's Cabin. Alfred Jackson was born a slave of Andrew Jackson at the Hermitage around 1812 and worked there in various jobs. After the Civil War, he stayed as a tenant farmer and later worked as caretaker and guide following the purchase of the estate in 1889 by the Ladies' Hermitage Association. Jackson died in 1901 and was buried near the tomb of the President and Mrs. Jackson.