Sweetwater Mansion
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Sweetwater Mansion, located in Florence, Alabama, is a plantation house designed by General John Brahan of the Alabama Militia.
Sweetwater Mansion in 1934
John Brahan
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John Brahan was a resident of the frontier-era southern United States. He was a land speculator, public official, and militia officer in Tennessee and Alabama. In 1819 he resigned from his job as rece
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. A veteran of the War of 1812, John Brahan owned more than 4,000 acres in eastern Lauderdale County, Alabama. The eight room…
"129 Negroes for Sale" The Democrat, December 3, 1834
"Huntsville, November 14 – PUBLIC LAND SALES" (Mississippi Free Trader, Natchez, November 27, 1818)
A unique runaway slave ad where the slave owner seemingly knows a great deal about the family of his missing slaves, Matt and Granville (John Brahan owned some of their relatives) suggesting that kinship networks may have played a role in the slave trade between Tennessee and Alabama (The Democrat, Huntsville, May 3, 1832)