The Enslaved Ancestral Burial Ground is the final resting place of at least 481 people of African descent, many of whom were enslaved on the Bratton Plantation, though burials likely continued after emancipation. This five-acre cemetery, part of the 200-acre Bratton Plantation established around 1766 on the ancestral land of the Catawba Nation, contains graves oriented toward the rising sun, with many marked by natural field stones and others apparently unmarked. It is unknown how many people the Brattons enslaved before 1780, but over the next 85 years the enslaved population increased, reaching 139 enslaved people of African descent living and working on the plantation in 1843, many of whom would have been buried here. Watt and his wife Polly have the only engraved headstone, a marble stone commissioned by the Brattons after Watt's death in 1837 and Polly's death in 1838 and cut by Charleston stonecutter W.T. White, bearing an epitaph reflecting the Bratton family's views at that time. The burial ground stands as a testament to the lives of the mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters who lived and worked on this land and honors all who are buried here.