History Of The Vann Cabin

Vann Cherokee Cabin Work

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Green Hotel

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Vann Cherokee Cabin

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WELCOME TO 2018 CAVE SPRING BLOG

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Cherokee Vann Cabin

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As I was doing some research tonight I found this deed in Floyd County Ga Deeds.Notice it says 871 with David Building that the lot the cabin is on !!!!!!!

Vann Cherokee Cabin Grand Opening

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Historic Cave Spring Georgia : The Vann Cabin Progress Report:

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Historic Cave Spring Georgia : The Vann Cabin Progress Report:: The cabin was disassembled successfully. Each log was labeled and stacked in order of replacement The half log floor joist were in re...

History Of The Vann Cabin: Cherokee Removal Bicycle Ride

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History Of The Vann Cabin: Cherokee Removal Bicycle Ride: Cherokee Removal Bicycle Ride

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Cherokee Removal Bicycle Ride

Historic Cave Spring Georgia : Cherokee Vann Cabin

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Historic Cave Spring Georgia : Cherokee Vann Cabin: Beautiful morning at the deconstructed Vann Cabin in downtown Cave Spring. The ancient construction now showing the mortise and tenon and pe...

Cave Spring Historical Society Newsletter: Michael Burton and other CSHS members Visit New E...

2015-04-24T18:53:00.001-04:00

Cave Spring Historical Society Newsletter: Michael Burton and other CSHS members Visit New E...: April 23, 2015 Michael Burton I and several other CSHS members visited with Ranger David Gomez at the site for over three hours....

Cave Spring Historical Society Newsletter: Press Release

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President’s Message

Welcome to the Cave Spring Historical Society Newsletter

In 1975, a small group of local artist and other lovers of beauty met and formed this

organization. They had been disturbed by the deterioration of several abandoned historical

buildings in lovely Rolator Park. They enlisted Diane Dawson, who was a local dynamo, to

spear head the renovation. First, they needed funds so they started the Cave Spring Arts

Festival which has now been active and popular for 40 years. Then they searched for Grants.

No Federal monies, State monies, Foundations were readily available. So what could they do

in a town of 900 citizens and no millionaires? They rolled up their sleeves and asked for

volunteers who wanted to be a part of a community action. Hundreds of people gave sweat

equity and worked thousands of hours so that you and I can enjoy these buildings featured in

this site.

Five years ago an observant citizen noticed a log cabin hidden inside an old dilapidated hotel

building. Since then it has been veriﬁed that this two story building was built by the Cherokee

Indians in 1810. It has been researched and documented for ﬁve years and again dollars are

not raining from the sky so the organization is asking for the community to again come

together and remove the dilapidated building that is hiding the treasure. We are seeing history

repeat itself. Come to Cave Spring and see what a determined citizenry can do with their own,

“blood sweat and tears.”

We’ve heard about community barn raising. Well, on April 11, 2015, the City of Cave SpringGeorgia under the auspices of the Cave Spring Historical society will have a Cabin revealing.

Five years ago an observant citizen, noticed something strange under the dilapidated clap

boards of an abandoned hotel. Five years of extensive research has veriﬁed that there is a two

story hand hewed log cabin built by Avery Vann, upstanding citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in

1810. Rooms were added sometime in the past 150 years that obscured the cabin structure.

The insides had been remodeled as hotel rooms. It was a huge surprise to even the 100 year

old citizens in our fair town. There had been rumors but they were discounted and now there it

was. Contrary to popular belief, grant monies haven’t rained from the sky, so we have decided

to have a big work day where maybe a 100 citizens: young and old, black and white, deaf and

hearing will come together and work as a team to remove the decaying structure that is hiding

the “diamond in the rough.”

We know this can be done because 40 years ago the historical society was formed to save

three abandoned buildings that were deteriorating in beautiful Rolator Park in our fair city. They

raised money through art festivals and through lots of sweet equity the Society and the citizens

of Cave Spring came together and saved these buildings from certain destruction and turned

them into beautiful, functional, historical buildings that you and I can enjoy. The historically

signiﬁcant, Presbyterian Church, was donated to the Society for preservation. Again volunteers

came together to build a back porch close to but not attached to the historical building and

added two restrooms and a storage room so that the desanctiﬁed building could become an Art

Gallery to be enjoyed by visitors to our beautiful community snuggled in the foothills of

Northwest Georgia. Take a Saturday, April 11th to visit us and drink from our spring waters

judged best in Georgia on numerous occasions. While you are here you can picnic in the park

and enter our intriguing cave and on yeah, you can help us remove old boards and plaster and

expose what will in a short time be a tribute to our heritage and to those native Americans who

called our fair village home for hundreds of years.

March 29, 2015

Michael Burton

President of the Cave Spring Historical society

770-748-8542, BurtonMik@mac.com

Journal kept by Richard Blount while serving on the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission. :: Alabama Textual Materials Collection

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Journal kept by Richard Blount while serving on the Georgia-Alabama Boundary Survey Commission. :: Alabama Textual Materials Collection

Cave Spring Historical Society Newsletter: Message About The Vann Cabin From President Mike ...

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Cave Spring Historical Society Newsletter: Message About The Vann Cabin From President Mike ...: We had a great morning S Pretty weather and good spirits at the cabin. FCCI workers did a great job of cleaning up the area behind the ...

Cave Spring Historical Society Newsletter: Vann Cabin Brick

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Cave Spring Historical Society Newsletter: Vann Cabin Brick: All brick are pick up and wrap ready for storageO

Historic Cave Spring Georgia : History Of The Cherokee In Cave Spring Ga

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Historic Cave Spring Georgia : History Of The Cherokee In Cave Spring Ga: History Of The Cherokee In Cave Spring Ga April 18 2015 10AM Till 3PM At The Cave Spring Welcome Center Vicki a...

Historic Cave Spring Georgia : History Of The Cherokee In Cave Spring Ga

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Historic Cave Spring Georgia : History Of The Cherokee In Cave Spring Ga: History Of The Cherokee In Cave Spring Ga April 18 2015 10AM Till 3PM At The Cave Spring Welcome Center . Come by and see al...

Historic Cave Spring Georgia : Cave Spring Historical Society Newsletter: Ferry L...

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Historic Cave Spring Georgia : Cave Spring Historical Society Newsletter: Ferry L...: Cave Spring Historical Society Newsletter: Ferry Landings, Fords, and Roads: Traveling the Tr... : Ferry Landings, Fords, and Roads: Traveli...

International Archaeology Day At Vann Cabin

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Hosted By Kennesaw State University

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https://www.wcu.edu/library/DigitalCollections/CherokeePhoenix/index.htm

New Cabin Sign

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Georgia Trail Of Tears Meeting

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Georgia Trail Of Tears Meeting At Summerville Ga

Old Train Depot

Rickey Butch Walker: Turkey Town

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Rickey Butch Walker: Turkey Town: Turkey Town Turkey Town was a Chickamauga Indian village named for Cherokee Chief Little Turkey; the town was on the High Town Path th...

Avery Disbursements in 1831

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Avery Disbursements in 1831

1905 Sanborn Fire Map Of the Green Hotel

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The Cabin is inside the Green Hotel