Bratton House Site

Bratton House Site is a South Carolina historical marker in York, York County, dedicated 1977.

York County · dedicated 1977 · 8 N. Congress St. (U.S. Hwy. 321), York, York

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Front: Robert Clendinen, Yorkville lawyer and South Carolina senator from York District (1816-30), purchased this land in 1813. The house, which he built here before his death in 1830, was acquired in 1847 by Dr. James Rufus Bratton, a surgeon in the Confederate Army. It was razed in 1956. Reverse: Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, spent the night of April 27, 1865, in the home of Dr. James Rufus Bratton, which was located on this site. Davis, in danger of capture and arrest by Federal troops, was attempting to reach some remnant of the Confederate Army in the South or West with which he could find protection and continue the war.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by York County Historical Commission

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