From Battlefield to Frontier: What a Land Bounty Meant

Black-and-white painting of a boundary line strung between hand-hewn wooden posts across a wildflower meadow, with rolling wooded hills and a winding creek valley beyond, marking a Revolutionary War land bounty on the Tennessee frontier.

How does a broke young nation repay the soldiers who won its freedom? With land. A 1,000-acre bounty carried Henry Bradford over the mountains to Drake’s Creek, where he built the home that still stands as the Bradford-Berry House.

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