City Directories and History: Nathan Moore was a well known artisan in the Bethesda community during his lifetime of service. Not only did he own and perhaps build this dwelling but he was the chief contractor of Bethesda Presbyterian Church. The census has him living next to Dr. John S. Bratton (Historic Brattonsville) and later another…
4858 McConnells Highway
One of the oldest churches in the South Carolina Upcountry, Bethesda Presbyterian Church is also one of the four original Presbyterian churches in the state’s old York District. A mission (church) is believed to have existed as early as 1760 and Bethesda was formally organized about 1769 or 1770. From 1800 to 1863, the congregation…
Hightower Hall
In the mid 1850’s York County was prospering through the growth of it’s cotton industry as well as through improved transportation and technology. It was at this time that John Simpson Bratton, the son of Dr. John Bratton of the Homestead House at Brattonsville, began working on his own home with his wife Harriet. Originally…