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Cherokee leader James Vann built this brick mansion, the 'Showplace of the Cherokee Nation,' around 1804-05 at the center of a vast slaveholding plantation. Vann was killed in 1809; his son Joseph held it until Georgia dispossessed the family in 1834.
Chief Vann House is a historical marker in Chatsworth, Murray County, erected in 1954. It is one of 15 historical markers documented in Murray County, among 41 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 34.7640, -84.8218 near Chatsworth. The nearest cataloged historic site is Old Federal Road (historical marker), about 0.2 miles away. Others within a short drive include Springplace Moravian Mission & School, The Moravian Mission to the Cherokee Indians, and Anna Rosina Kliest Gambold.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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