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LOCHINVAR PLANTATION
BUILT IN THE LATE 1830′S, the mansion was home to the Gordon family
for many years and watched over by an old caretaker. The Gordon family is long
gone now.... but the old caretaker still watches over the place.
Lochinvar was built by Robert Gordon, a Scottish adventurer, in the late
1830′s as a gift for his wife. At the time, Gordon owned a strip of land which
stretched all of the way from Pontotoc to Aberdeen, sixty miles away. Aberdeen
was Gordon’s own town. He had founded a trading post there in the early
