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…
Homestead House
The centerpiece of Historic Brattonsville remains the impressive Greek Revival home known as the Homestead House. Constructed in three or more periods, the house encompasses the history of the region’s prosperous planter class in a manner rarely found or preserved for public viewing. Originally the home had a small front porch “stoop” without the flaking…