[Front Marker]
Where 75 Whigs led by
Colonel William Bratton
defeated a British and Tory
force of 500 men
July 12, 1780.
On this date, Sept.30, 1953, there stands 200 feet to the north of this stone, the Revolutionary home . . . — — Map (db m24508) HM
William Bratton Plantation. In 1766 William Bratton and his wife Martha Robertson purchased 200 acres on the South Fork of Fishing Creek and built a single-pen log house here at the junction of several important colonial roads. The Bratton . . . — — Map (db m95591) HM