by efaile | Oct 4, 2023 | news
For Immediate Release: Oct. 3, 2023 Contact:Marie CheekCommunity Relations CoordinatorCulture & Heritage Museumswww.chmuseums.org803.909.7312 mcheek@chmuseums.org Spooky Saturdays and other fun festivities for the month of October at Museum of York County ROCK...
by efaile | Sep 27, 2023 | news
For Immediate Release: Sep. 26, 2023Contact:Marie CheekCommunity Relations CoordinatorCulture & Heritage Museumswww.chmuseums.org803.909.7312 mcheek@chmuseums.org Celebrate the Carolina Piedmont’s agricultural heritage with fall festivities during “Harvest on...
by efaile | Sep 8, 2023 | preservation
The York Graded School, now known as the McCelvey Center, was expanded in 1922 and served as a school for the people of York into the 1980s. Under the stewardship of the Culture & Heritage Museums, the former school building is used as museum collections storage...
by efaile | Sep 8, 2023 | preservation
Harriet Rainey Bratton (1795-1874) took over the operation of the Bratton plantation after the death of her husband, Dr. John Simpson Bratton, Sr., in 1843. She resided in the Homestead House until her death in 1874. Today, the Culture & Heritage Museums’...
by efaile | Sep 8, 2023 | preservation
In early 1840, Catherine Ladd (1808-1899) opened the Brattonsville Female Seminary inside the renovated ancestral home of the Brattons of Brattonsville. Today, the preservation team of Culture & Heritage Museums is working to restore the house to its appearance...
