Sweetwater Mansion

	Sweetwater Mansion
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Sweetwater Mansion in 1934
	Location within Alabama Location within the United States
Location	Sweetwater and Florence Boulevard, Florence, Alabama
Coordinates	34°49′28.2720″N 87°38′34.3320″W / 34.824520000°N 87.642870000°W
Area	8.84 acres (3.58 ha)
Built	1835
NRHP reference No.	76000335
Added to NRHP	June 17, 1976

Sweetwater Mansion (also known as the Governor Robert Patton House), located in Florence, Alabama, is a plantation house designed by General John Brahan of the Alabama Militia.

History

A veteran of the War of 1812, John Brahan owned more than 4,000 acres in eastern Lauderdale County, Alabama. The eight room home was built of bricks manufactured by Brahan's slaves on the site of Sweetwater Creek which lay just below the house. Sweetwater Mansion received its name from the creek and was first occupied by Brahan's son-in-law Robert M. Patton, a post-Civil War governor of Alabama, who completed the mansion in 1835.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.^[1]

Legends and ghost stories

Stories of paranormal activity have been told about the house for many years. Numerous apparitions have allegedly been seen in and around the house.^[2]

Sweetwater Mansion was also featured as a haunted location on the paranormal TV series Most Terrifying Places in America which aired on the Travel Channel in 2019.^[3]

References

1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
↑ Penot, Jessica (2010). Haunted North Alabama. Charleston, SC: History Press. pp. 123–125. ISBN 978-1-59629-990-0.
↑ "Shadow Factory".

External links

Media related to Gov. Robert Patton House at Wikimedia Commons

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. AL-333, "Sweetwater, Sweetwater Avenue & Florence Boulevard, Florence, Lauderdale County, AL", 12 photos

[nris-1] 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010. Retrieved March 29, 2017.

[2] Penot, Jessica (2010). Haunted North Alabama. Charleston, SC: History Press. pp. 123–125. ISBN 978-1-59629-990-0.

[3] "Shadow Factory".

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