Forgotten outside the small South Carolina town of Winnsboro where she lived most of her adult life, Catharine Ladd now emerges from the painstaking and extensive research of Patricia Veasey to shine as a vibrant, dedicated, innovative educator and writer whose work spanned nearly the entire 19th century. Thank you, Mrs. Veasey, for rediscovering this…
1840 School House
On a Sunday afternoon in the mid 1990’s Rock Hill District Supt. of Education, Dr. Phil McDaniel took a tour of Historic Brattonsville for the first time and meet it’s Executive Director. It was the perfect opportunity for the two men to begin discussing their mutual aspiration of having an expanded educational program at Historic…
Colonel William Bratton Cabin
One of the region’s premier historic restorations is Historic Brattonsville, which host generations of Bratton homes. This sequential history of architecture is one of the sites main attractions. And the oldest of these dwellings is the home of William and Martha Bratton, early Scots-Irish settlers from Virginia who settled in the Bethesda community of what…