Walnut Grove Plantation tells the stories of the free and enslaved people who settled the South Carolina Backcountry, fought for independence, and built a new nation. Charles and Mary Moore established the plantation on a 550-acre land grant. The Scots-Irish family Moores raised ten children, including Revolutionary War heroine "Kate" Barry, in the house they built about 1765 and lived in for the next 40 years. In late 1781, Loyalist William "Bloody Bill" Cunningham killed three Patriot soldiers at the plantation and sparked a small skirmish with local militia, which is reenacted each year in early October.