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…
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…