Joseph Vann's Town

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Joseph Vann’s Town

About ½ mile N of here, a Chickamauga village was destroyed by Evan Shelby’s punitive expedition of 1779. Following his expulsion from Georgia, the wealthy Cherokee chief built a homestead here, with three racetracks, about which a new village grew up. It was abandoned at the Cherokee expulsion of 1838. Vann’s house stood until 1900.

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35.1437 N
85.1157 W