When the Chief Vann House in Murray County was built, it was the first brick house in the Cherokee nation. It was built by enslaved laborers around 1804 for James Vann, and his son Joseph owned the house at the time of the Trail of Tears. Since the 1950s, it has been preserved by theContinue reading “Trip Photos: The Chief Vann House”
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Cobb County, 1832
The Cherokee lived in North Georgia until the 1830s, when they were forcibly removed in what came to be known as the Trail of Tears.[1] In 1832, the State of Georgia surveyed the Cherokee lands to prepare for a lottery, where settlers would be given randomly selected plots of land across North Georgia. The regionContinue reading “Cobb County, 1832”
Andrew J. Bramlett 