Plantation owner, architect, and North Carolina Militia General Nathan Bryan Whitfield (1799-1868) built the Gaineswood mansion in Marengo County during the mid-nineteenth century and named it after Gen. George Strother Gaines.
Nathan Bryan Whitfield
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