Saturday, Feb. 6, will be particularly busy at the Chief Vann House State Historic Site in Chatsworth, Ga., with five intersecting activities during the day.
Two last all day. Three others take place in the afternoon.
First, a bit of history about the property. The house is named for James Vann, a Cherokee Indian leader and businessman in the 1790s who established the largest and most prosperous plantation in the Cherokee Nation, covering 1,000 acres of what is now Murray County. In 1804, he completed construction of a 2 1/2-story brick home that was the most elegant in the Cherokee Nation.
After Vann was murdered in 1809, his son Joseph inherited the mansion and plantation. Joseph also was a Cherokee leader and became ever more wealthy than his father.
When the Cherokee Nation was forced west by state and federal troops in the 1830s, the Vann family were relocated to the Cherokee Territory of Oklahoma and lost their elegant home in North Georgia. Today it survives as Georgia’s best-preserved historic Cherokee Indian home.