Sweetwater Mansion

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.

Sweetwater Mansion
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Sweetwater Mansion in 1934
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Location	Sweetwater and Florence Boulevard, Florence, Alabama
Coordinates	34°49′28.2720″N 87°38′34.3320″W
Area	8.84 acres (3.58 ha)
Built	1835 (1835)
NRHP reference No.	76000335[1]
Added to NRHP	June 17, 1976

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][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 in America which aired on the Travel Channel in 2019.^{[6][better source needed]}