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…
Brattonsville Gin House
The large timber frame gin house at the rear of the Homestead house was donated to Historic Brattonsville by the Williams family who lived on the corner of Highway 49 North and Atkins Road. It was here that the gin house had been used for generations by the community to gin their cotton and have…
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…