Lochinvar

Robert Gordon, a Scottish trader who had founded Aberdeen, bought land south of Pontotoc after the Chickasaw cession of 1832 and built the house about 1836. The land came from Molly Gunn, a Chickasaw woman and daughter of William Colbert. Gordon's son James, a Confederate officer, was briefly suspected of a link to John Wilkes Booth and was appointed to the U.S. Senate in December 1909 to fill a vacancy. The family kept the house until 1900. Dr. Forrest Tutor and his wife bought it in 1966, and restored it after a 2001 tornado.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chickasaw Council House — 11 mi
  A roadside exhibit on the Natchez Trace Parkway marking the Chickasaw capital of the 1820s and the council house where the 1832 treaty of Pontotoc Creek ended Chickasaw title to Mississippi.
• Tupelo National Battlefield — 15 mi
  A one-acre park on Main Street marking the July 1864 battle of Tupelo, a Union victory that kept Nathan Bedford Forrest away from Sherman's supply line, with Black soldiers among the defenders.
• Chickasaw Village Site — 15 mi
  A Chickasaw village on a remnant of the Black Belt Prairie beside the Natchez Trace Parkway, with house outlines marked on the ground and signs that speak in Chickasaw voices.
• Natchez Trace Parkway Visitor Center — 18 mi
  The parkway's headquarters and official visitor center near Tupelo, with a film, a small museum of the Old Trace and the surviving New Deal houses of the Tupelo Homesteads.

More markers nearby

• Pierre D'Artaguiette — 2.0 mi
• Pontotoc County Blues — 2.0 mi
• Jim Weatherly — 2.4 mi
• Maj. Gen. William Colbert — 2.5 mi