Sweetwater Mansion
Sweetwater Mansion | |
Location | Sweetwater and Florence Boulevard, Florence, Alabama |
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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[1] |
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 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][3]
Sweetwater Mansion was featured in an episode of A&E's Paranormal State on April 25, 2011.[4][5][self-published source?] Sweetwater Mansion was also featured as a haunted location on the paranormal TV series Most Terrifying Places which aired on the Travel Channel in 2019.[6][better source needed]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
- ^ Bernie Delinski (October 30, 2011). "Sweetwater Mansion site of paranormal activity hunters". Times Daily.
- ^ Penot, Jessica (2010). Haunted North Alabama. Charleston, SC: History Press. pp. 123–125. ISBN 978-1-59629-990-0.
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1894106/ - "Paranormal State: Southern Discomfort at Sweetwater Mansion [user-generated source]
- ^ Johnston, Debra (2003). Skeletons In The Closet: More True Ghost Stories of the Shoals Area. Self Published. pp. 51–55. ISBN 978-0-9752767-1-6.
- ^ "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
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