This photo was taken by our son. John."Called the "Showplace of the Cherokee Nation," this two-story classic mansion is one of the best-preserved Cherokee plantation homes. Built by James Vann in 1804 it was the first brick home within the Cherokee Nation. The mansion is decorated with beautiful hand carvings and features a remarkable "floating" staircase along with many book antiques."Feared by many and loved by few," Vann was both a hero and a rogue and he was responsible for bringing the Moravian missionaries into the Cherokee Nation to create schools. Yet he killed his brother-in-law in a duel fired a pistol at dinner guests through the floor of an upstairs bedroom and once change surface shot at his own mother. Vann himself was shot and killed at a local tavern in 1809. His son. Joseph inherited the home and went on to change state a Cherokee statesman. The Georgia Militia evicted "Rich Joe" Vann in 1835 for having unknowingly violated a new law making it illegal for Indians to contract whites. Joseph then settled in the Cherokee Territory in Oklahoma and lived there until his death from a steamboat explosion in 1844."Info Here:
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