Criminal cases of the Cherokee Nation

Case# 140 10/29/1827
Gideon Childers
vs John Walker, Sr
debt; against plaintiff; cost of appeal $0.60

Case# 141 10/29/1827
Thigh Walker
vs Robert Fields
debt; fines plaintiff for the 7 bushels of corn in contention; cost of
appeal $1.14

Case# 142 11/1/1827
William Bolling
vs [illegible] & Tsukanah
debt on note; by default against defendants: cost of appeal $72

Case# 143 11/2/1827
John Walker
vs Jacob Seabolt
to recover costs; for plaintiff: $39.60 1/2

Case# 144 10/24/1828 Andrew Ross, John Huss, & Walter S. Adair; Elijah
Hicks, Clerk
Cherokee Nation (Wolf, prosecutor)
vs Robert Sanders & Wayahuttah
stealing money; against defendants

Case# 145 10/24/1828
Cherokee Nation (Chuwakuller, prosecutor)
vs Beaver Carrier
stealing; defendant guiltly, sentenced to receive 5 lashes & to pay
prosecutor $10 & costs; witness: The Fencer (14 days - $10)

Case# 146 10/28/1828
William Berry (James Gibson, agt)
vs William Lasley
to recover price of a horse; for plaintiff: bill of $115; cost of appeal
$6.90; stay taken on above judgement according to law witness:
James Lasley, Sr

Case# 147 10/28/1828
Cherokee Nation
vs John C. Bird
horse stealing; Bird pleads guilty & sentenced to receive 100 lashes on the
bare back

Case# 150 11/3/1828
Estate of Dragging Canoe, dec'd. (David Griffin, one of
administrators)
vs Peggy Pathkiller
to recover Negroes: Simon, Pheby, & her children; horses, cattle, hogs, & 1
set of blacksmith tools; Court awards adminstrators Simon, 4
cows, & 1 set of smiths tools or $270 (John Ridge, security) witnesses:
Chuwalookee (10 days-$7.50); James Hughes (ditto); Sally Duck
(6 days-$4.50); Mrs. Fish (11 days-$11.25); Mrs. Headthrower (10
days-$10.50); Youn Duck (6 days-$4.50); John Thompson (31
days-$23.25); William Thompson (20 days-$15.00); Money Cryer (3
days -$2.25); John Ratliff (8 days-$6.00) Execution of decision
8/14/1829; some of property stored 9 months by Elijah Hicks

Case# 151 11/5/1828
James Foreman
vs Necotiah
Necotiah presented proofs to open Court that the judgement against her made
10/29/1827 was "contrary to the intention & meaning of the
customs & usages of the courts of the Nation." A new hearing is ordered for
the case

Case# 152 11/5/1828
Peggy Morgan (David Vann, assignee)
vs Jacob West
debt on account; for defendant; witness: Major Ridge (4 days -$3); Mrs.
Ridge (ditto.); James Martin (ditto.)

Case# 153 11/6/1828
Thomas Pettit
vs George Downing, dec'd. (John Downing, admr.)
plea of debt arising from copartnership worth $$4271; for the defendant
witnesses: Mary Alberty (5 days at Hickory Log - $3.75); Mary
Alberty at New Echota 7 days-$5.25); Sally Alberty (7 days-$5.25); Stephen
Whitmire [?] (15 days-$11.25); Thomas Sanders (ditto.); Wind
(ditto.); James Doherty (ditto.); Nelly Downing (ditto.) Execution paid
12/13/1828; delivered to Eli Harlan

Case# 154 11/6/1828
Charles R. Hicks
vs John Walker
debt; for plaintiff, bill of $471.83 1/2

Case# 155 11/10/1828
Joseph Vann
vs David McNair & Delilah McNair
to recover certain property; in favor of defendants; witnesses: James B.
Chisholm (29 days-$21.75); Clement Vann (34 days-$27.50);
William Burgess (19 days-$14.25); John Millen (15 days-$11.25); Major Ridge
(7 days-$5.25); Thomas Pettit (4 days-$3); Big Halfbreed (3
days-$2.25); Walkingstick (4 days-$3); Chulioa (7days- $5.25); James Foster
(10days-$7.50); James Brown (8 days-$6) W.S. Shorey,
security for jundement against Joseph Vann for 9 months per act of
11/12/1825

Case# 156 11/13/1828
Major Henderson (Andrew M. Vann,agt)
vs Samuel Talley
debt on account; Court confirms judgement of District Court: $74.75

Case# 157 11/13/1828
Hasterig & Rawlings (Joseph Coodey,agt.)
vs Hugh Price
debt on note; for plaintiffs: $74 & interest (9/7/1827 to 11/13/1828) R.
Taylor, security for Hugh Price for 6 months, dated 11/18/1828

Case# 158 11/13/1828
John Walker
vs John Jourdan, Jr.
debt on account; limitation act

Case# 159 11/13/1828
Denham Orr
vs Chickasawtehee
action for debt; for plaintiff: $8.00; witness: John Love (8days-$6)

Case# 160 11/13/1828
Cherokee Nation (Archy Foreman, agt)
vs William McJunkin
violation of law; for defendant; witness: Major Martin (12 days-$9)

Case# 161 11/13/1828
Robert Smith (David Ross,agt.)
vs David England
to recover a stolen mare; for plaintiff: $60

Case# 162 11/13/1828
James Turk
vs Gideon [?] Agnew
debt on judement from McMinn Co, TN Court; for the defendant

Case# 163 11/12/1828
Edward Adair
vs Ambrose Harnage
to recover certain Negroes; for defendant witnesses: Samuel Candy (16
days -$12); John Wright (10 days- $7.50); Nancy Talley (11
days-$8.25); James Brown (7 days-$5.25); Thomas Pettit (12 days-$9); William
Hicks (6 days-$4.50); Nancy Hicks (15 days-$11.25); Dr.
Murry (7 days-$5.25); case stayed 6 months 11/13/1828 W.S.Adair, security;
execution issued & delivered to Joseph M. Lynch, Marshal

Case# 164 11/12/1828
Nancy Dougherty
vs Thomas Monroe
damages from assault & battery; for plaintiff: $6

Case# 165 11/10/1828
John Fields
vs Oowauteyohee
debt for price of horse; finds bill of $50 witnesses: Major Ridge (13
days-$9.75); Old Fields (6 days-$4.50)

Case# 166 11/11/1828
Michael Huffacre
vs Archy Foreman
damages to recover for an unlawfull seizure of property; for defendant
witness: Thomas Wilson (8 days-$6)

Case# 195 10/30/1829
Cherokee Nation (Treasurer of)
vs Elijah Hicks, George M. Lavender, & James Daniel
debt on note; against defendants: bill of $90 & interest (from 11/19/1827)
stayed 9 months; Leonard Hicks, security

Case# 196 10/31/1829
Thomas B. Adair
vs Alex Feather
damage for moving a house; Court agrees with Hihgtower District Court
judgement: $12

Case# 197 10/31/1829
Andrew M. Vann
vs Samuel Adair, Jr.
debt on note; for plaintiff for 2 cows & calves plus 1600 lbs of beef

Case# 198 10/31/1829
Jese Raper
vs Toonahnalah
for a plantation; for defendant

Case# 199 10/31/1829
Lame Dick [Duck?]
vs Polly Barnett
Court confirms District Court in favor of plaintiff

Case# 200 10/16/1830 Walter S. Adair, Andrew Ross, John Huss S. Watie,
Clerk
John Graves (John Harrison, agt)
vs John Lowrey, dec'd.
not for $75; for defendant

Case# 201 10/18/1828
widow Cornblade
vs James Fields
recover for a horse; for plaintiff; either the contended horse or its
appraised value

Case# 202 10/20/1830
Crying Snake
vs Robert Brown
for right to a certain field at Pathkiller's Ferry on west side of River;
for plaintiff: the field in dispute witnesses: M. McIntosh (14
days-$10.50); John Ratliff (17days- $12.75); Anohy (16 days-$12); James
Lasley (15 days-$11.25); Quakey (3 days-$2.25); Takey (2
days-$1.50); Kenah (6 days-$4.50); Kahlonesky (3 days-$2.25)

Case# 203 10/20/1830
John Ridge
vs Shade Quaquah, et al
right to a certain improvement & houses adjoining plantation of Jack
Quahquah, dec'd., lying east & west of the road to Oothcaloga;
Court finds for plaintiff; houses & field in dispute

Case# 204 9/27/1830
George Baldridge
vs
Baldridge presents to Court the following affadavits: A) 9/27/1830 James
Spencer (X) says he was present when Luther Morgan gave to
George Baldridge a bill of sale of a Negro woman named Silve B) 9/27/1830
Charles Dryhead (X)says that he acted as interpreter
between George Baldridge & Luther Morgan re Negro woman named Hannah C)
9/27/1830 George Baldridge (X) says on 1/7th last he
was robbed of a trunk along with bill of sale for 2 Negroes (a girl named
Silve, age 20 & a girl Hannah, age not recollected). One bill of
sale made to Luther Morgan of Huntsville & other for Hannah made by Latte &
Fields

Case# 205 2/25/1833
vs
Last Will & Testiment of Richard Ratliff, "now advanced in age" ; gives to
his daughter Jenny (wife of Daniel Griffin) these Negroes:
Tonney & her children Haner, Joe, & Liby & all their increase; 2 children
named Beckey & Peter; Negro woman Mary

Case# 206 10/23/1833
Templin W. Ross
vs Sleeping Rabbit
debt on note; for plaintiff: bill for $5.50 with interest from 8/271820

Case# 207 10/23/1833
George Still
vs Peggy
debt on account $50; for plaintiff: $20 & costs

Case# 208 10/23/1833
Sally Murphy
vs Robert Fields
debt on account; for defendant

Case# 209 10/23/1833
John Walker, Sr.
vs Samuel J. Aikens
debt; for defendant

Case# 210 10/24/1833 Charles H. Vann, Clerk
David Thompson
vs David Ross
debt; for defendant

Case# 211 10/25/1833
David Sconatoyee
vs Checooea
debt on note; for plaintiff: $50

Case# 212 10/25/1833
Nancy Hawkins
vs William Loudermilk
for plaintiff: $230

Case# 213 10/25/1833
Mary Stedman [this is Mary Vann, sister of Rich Joe Vann]
vs
Affadavit 8/10/1829 by Mary Stedman of Chickamauga District has sold to
Joseph Vann of Coosawatta District the following property:
Negro woman Jenny (ca 50yeas old), her husband Jarry (about same age), & her
children Sally (34 years old), Charlat (28 years old),
George (26 years old), and Roseanna (21 years) plus Sally's grandchildren
Ruben (9), Washington (6), Sally (3), & Ereline (1); also 10
head of cattle, 1 mare, & 2 colts, 1 bay horse , & 1 pony and 1 wagon for
consideration of $4020 paid to me. witnesses: George M.
Lavender & John Bell Also affadavit of George M. Lavender,10/24/1833
confirming above

Case# 214 10/29/1830
Tom Boot
vs David McNair
to recover a cow; for defendant

Case# 215 10/21/1830
John McCarvey & Maurice Gore
vs John Martin & Samuel McConnell
debt on note; for plaintiffs: $19.44 1/2

Case# 216 10/21/1830
widow Root [Ketcher = Tickaneeski?]
vs The Ketcher
debt for a horse; for defendant

Case# 217 10/21/1830
Betsey Walker
vs David Vann
recover damages for unlawfully detaining Negroes; for defendant

Case# 218 10/23/1830
Goeroge Harlan (Eli Harlan, agent)
vs Michael Huffacre
debt on account; for plaintiff: $426.31 1/4 witnesses: Edward Adair (19
days-$14.25); Archy Foreman (17 days- $12.75)

Case# 219 10/23/1830
William Post
vs Samuel Mayes
trespass to recove a field; Court decides on part of field belonging to each
party

Case# 220 10/23/1830
M. Hildebrand
vs James Pettit
Referred back to Circuit Court for trial

Case# 221 10/23/1830
Charles Thornton
vs Walter Adair
debt on note; for plaintiff for $85.25 & interest from 12/15/1829 Samuel
Mayes, security for 6 months stay of case

Case# 222 10/23/1830
Robert Parris
vs John Gillen & Giles McAnulty
for bond; for plantiff: $75

Case# 223 10/25/1830
Jesse Halfbreed
vs Samuel Copeland
debt on notes; for plaintiff: $11.75 & wagon bed to be valued by 2
disinterested persons chosen by the parties; cost of appeal $0.75

Case# 224 10/26/1830
Ailsey
vs Wahlanetah
recover for a horse; for defendant; witnesses: Cahnedoo (1 day- $0.75);
Sarah (1 day-$0.75); Wahtey (1 day-$0.75)

Case# 225 10/26/1830
Aaron & Henry Price
vs James P. Chisholm
debt on due bill; for plaintiff: $24

Case# 226 10/26/1830
vs David Vann
Court orders Vann to appear before Court at New Echota in 1831 to show cause
why there should not be a new trial of the cases of
Elizabeth Walker & children of Peggy Morgan against David Vann for
unlawfully detaining Negroes

Case# 227 10/26/1830
Quaty Hair
vs George Candy
debt on note; for plaintiff: $8

Case# 228 10/18/1832 Walter S.Adair, John Huss
Sally Hawkins
vs Betsey Welch
appeal from the bench; Court remands case to lower court for trial

Case# 229 10/20/1832
The Flint
vs Richard Walker
to recover a horse; for defendant

Case# 230 10/23/1832
James Foreman
vs Jesse Bushyhead & Isaac Bushyhead
debt on note for cattle; for $16.75

Case# 231 10/23/1832
Cootiah
vs James Foreman
to recover a yearling; for defendant

Case# 232 10/24/1832
Robert Vann
vs George Benge
remanded back to lower court for trial

Case# 233 10/24/1832
Sally Lowrey
vs Archy Foreman
to recover 7 head of cattle; for plaintiff: cattle worth $40

Case# 234 10/25/1832
Tauchelahnah
vs Ahnahtuskee
to recover a certain black horse; for defendant

Case# 235 10/26/1832 John Huss; George M. Waters; William S. Shorey [later
2 replacing the absent Lewis Ross & W.S. Adair]
A.McCoy
vs David Stiner
debt on order; for plaintiff: $30

Case# 236 10/19/1833 John Huss; W.S. Adair Charles H. Vann, Clerk
children of Peggy Morgan (Betsey Walker, agt)
vs David Vann
sci.fa. for a new trial; Court refuses to hold new trial

Case# 237 10/21/1833 W.S.Adair, John Huss; Daniel McCoy
Caty McDaniel (for her son John B. McDaniel)
vs Jesse Raper
trespass to recover damage of $15; for defendant

Case# 238 10/21/1833
Delila McLane
vs Joseph Spears
trespass to recover improvement; for defendant

Case# 238.1 10/21/1833
Johnson Foreman & Michael Wagner [?]
vs John Butler & M. Waters
for plaintiff: $96.50; cost of appeal: $5.73

Case# 239 10/21/1833
Smoke
vs Arch'd Foreman & James Spear
debt on note $38.48; for plaintiff

Case# 240 10/21/1833
Thomas Mannon
vs Young Wolf
debt on accout; for plaintiff: $10 & cost

Case# 241.24 10/21/1833
Thomas C. Wrae
vs Arch'd Foreman
debt on note; for plaintiff: $20 & cost $2.40

Case# 243 10/25/1833
Arch Acorn
vs Moses Hildebrand
for defendant

Case# 244 10/25/1833
Cloud
vs Spanish Peter
to recover for 4 head of cattle; for plaintiff; for 4 head of cattle or
comparable value

Case# 245 10/25/1833
James C. Martin
vs James Pettit
for defendant

Case# 246 10/25/1833
Amos Thornton
vs James Foreman et al
damages to recover for false imprisonmen; for defendants

Case# 247 10/25/1833
Quaty Hair (in behalf of Anderson Benge)
vs Dew Otterlifter
to recover damages; for plaintiff: $5 & cost of suit

Case# 248 10/28/1833 W.S.Adair; John Huss
Betsey Walker
vs Young Wolf
trespass for improvement; for plaintiff

Case# 249 10/28/1833
Nicholas Smith
vs Oohwohlata
to recover hogs; for pliantiff: 20 hogs

Case# 250 10/23/1834 W.S.Adair; Daniel McCoy; Arch Fields
Sally Timberlake
vs Fodder & wife Susan
right of a filly & 4 head of cattle; for plaintiff: the 1 year old filly or
the value thereof

Case# 251 10/24/1834
Tachakeesee
vs Robin Perry
debt of $10; for plaintiff; cost of appeal: $0.60

Case# 252 10/25/1834
Skonahtahhee
vs Atohlahee
debt for horse; for defendant

Case# 253 10/25/1834
Caty Richmond, Anny Richmond, & Big Drum
vs Prince
emancipation of a black man named Prince for the consideration of $150
received from him. witnesses Lewis Ross & John Miller

Case# 254 10/25/1834
Pheasant
vs Tiesky & brother
to recover 5 head of cattle; for plaintiff: the cattle or comparable value

Case# 255 10/27/1834
Culstahyee
vs George Cherokee
to recover 1 cow & yearly increase; for defendant

Case# 256 10/28/1834
Sally Hawkins
vs Betsey Welch
to recover a cow & increase for 12 years; for plaintiff: $30 to be
discharged in trade

Case# 257 10/28/1834
Cherokee Nation
vs The Broom
charged with murder; acquitted jurors: John Butler, Dick Foreman,
Connequiyohkee, Neelukah, Dick Sanders, Fishing Hawk, Fox Taylor,
John Love, Roman Nose, Oosenahlee, Hiram P. McCrary, & Samuel Foreman
(foreman of jury)

Case# 258 10/30/1834
Cherokee Nation
vs Chonoolaskee, Rain Crow, & Sleeping Rabbit
for stealing hogs; Court finds Chonoolaskee guilty & fined $l0 for hogs &
sentenced to recive 25 lashes on bare back jurors: Samuel
Foreman, Charles Timberlake, Ned Five Killer, Black Fox, Kulkaloskee, &
Welooka

Case# 263 10/29/1834
Aulley Crittenden
vs William Williams
trespass for a clearing 1/4 mile for her house; for plaintiff; description
of land at issue adjoining Williams' improvement (purchased from
Bendabout). The local District officer to assign a proper person to make
division between parties

Case# 263.1 10/29/1834
William Williams
vs Jesse Barrow
Court order District sheriff to appoint 2 men to value cow in dispute

Case# 266 10/29/1834
Residents of Cherokee Nation in North Carolina
vs Sam Bent
Affadavit re events many years before: an Indian trader named Sam Bent (a
whiteman who beat & killed his pregnant Cherokee wife); to
avoid vengeance by clansmen, Bent pursuaded Cherokee Council at Chota Old
Town on Tennessee River by purchasing a slave named
Mollie at Augusta, GA as a replacement; Mollie & her descendants since
fully accepted as Cherkokee citizen under tribal custom & usuage

Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail

Archaeologist Pat Garrow hopes Vann Cherokee Cabin finds will help in dating the addition

Archaeologist Pat Garrow hopes Vann Cherokee Cabin finds will help in dating the addition: CAVE SPRING — Down beneath the grass and first layer of topsoil is a treasure trove of artifacts around the Vann Cherokee Cabin. The smallest items — rusty nails, shards of glass, even tiny pieces ...

Cave Spring Georgia: Cave Spring Georgia: UPDATED LIST AS OF JUNE 5 OF ...

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Vann Valley Improvements

RN-T.com - EDITORIAL History is about today

RN-T.com - EDITORIAL History is about today

RN-T.com - Cave Spring cabin revealed as oldest structure in Floyd County

RN-T.com - Cave Spring cabin revealed as oldest structure in Floyd County

Log Building has be dated oldest structure Floyd County

Log Building has be dated oldest building in Floyd County

Archeologist Pat Garrow say the log structure was build in 1810

Pat Garrow will present his findings from the December 2012 dig at the Cave Spring Log Cabin.

Monday, March 25 in Cave Spring, GA:

6:30 pm.Atthe Cave Spring Elememtary School

Legendary Chieftain's Museum Archeologist Pat Garrow will present his findings from the December 2012 dig at the Cave Spring Log Cabin. 

Representatives from the Georgia Trail of Tears will be on hand to put Mr. Garrow's work in context with TOTA's findings.

One hint: The findings are significant. OK, two hints. The Cabin is now officially a major archeological site for the region, much less for the state of Georgia. 

The Historical Society of Cave Spring is proud and happy to have sponsored this work and grateful to the people who helped make it possible. The science has just begun. 

Talk to Pat Garrow and the Trail of Tears folks yourself on March 25. 

The Cabin report Great News Soon

The Cabin report is now written and awaiting a few graphic corrections before submittal. I believe that both of you will be pleased and perhaps even pleasantly surprised at what we found.Per   Patrick H. Garrow, RPA Director of Operations - Tennessee Office

Early Roads And Trails

 

1832 Survey Map

 

What We Know About The Cabin

What We Know


1. About Vann’s Valley and Cave Spring
Floyd County and this valley were settled by Eastern Indian tribes, mostly Creek
and Cherokee, in the mid-1700s. Major Ridge (builder and owner of what is now
the Chieftains Museum site) was born around 1771. (Cherokee Tragedy,
Wilkins.) Ridge served early with James Vann, uncle of David Vann, as a member
of the Cherokee Council.
Vann’s Valley is named for Avery Vann,1 a Scottish trader who married a fullblooded
Cherokee woman. Avery’s stepbrother was James Vann, a powerful
Cherokee chief known for his fierce temper. Avery Vann’s son, David Vann, was
born in Vann’s Valley in 1800.
David Vann’s home is thought to be on Alabama Street within a mile from the
cabin site. Anecdotal history points to other David Vann property sites in Cave
Spring as well.
2. Location of the Cabin
Cedartown Street and Broad Street, where the cabin sits, were main roads of
commerce in the late 1700s/early 1800s just as they are today.
3. Construction of the Cabin
Hand-hewn: The cabin is constructed of hand-hewn (or possibly hand-split) logs.
They may have been finished with an adz (a cutting tool whose thin arching
blade is perpendicular to the handle and is used for the rough shaping of wood)
or a broad ax.
1 Link from the TOTA website.
• Chinking: The word “chinking” applies to a process of covering the spaces
between logs. The pieces of wood now wedged between the logs were
possibly scrap left over from the roofing of the cabin. These pieces were
covered with a mixture of creek mud, fire ash, and other materials during
the winter. During the summer, the materials could have been removed
for “air conditioning.”
Architectural details also provide historical significance. The windows on the
right side are 6 over 9 style. (6 panes of glass over 9 panes of glass). This style
dates from the late 1700s to the early 1800s according to several sources.
(Field Guide to American Houses; Virginia and Lee McAlester; Knopf).
Known History of the Building
1830s
Armistead Richardson removed to Vann’s Valley and began preparations for the
establishment of Cave Spring in 1831.2 By 1839, Richardson’s land holdings
included thousands of acres in and around Cave Spring.3
1836
The Baptist Church was constituted led by Armistead Richardson. By 1839, the
members form a school for the area named “The Baptist Manual Labor School”
with 200 acres of land purchased for the school and buildings. Part of the land
was cultivated by the pupils of the school under the supervision of the principal;
part of it was laid in lots and sold and later incorporated as the town of Cave
Spring.4
1845
2 Battey’s History of Rome and Floyd County, page 36
3 A history of the Simmons Plantation (Ina Black’s House/Cherokee Sub Chief
David Vann’s home) by Kristi Reed
http://home.earthlink.et/`kristireed/index_files/Page2552
4 James Coffee Harris: Cave Spring and Vans Valley
The Baptist Manual Labor School was renamed the Hearn Manual Labor School in
honor of Lott O. Hearn. Mr. Hearn bequeathed a sizable amount of money to the
school upon his death. In 1903 the Baptist Manual Labor School was given to
the Educational Board of the Georgia Baptist Convention. It was reorganized as
a preparatory school for college under the name of Hearn Academy. 4
1847
Mr. William Posey acquired Lot # 6 from The Hearn Trustees.
1853-1854:
William K. Posey then sold Lot #6 to Joel Dean, Thomas Craven, and Walter R.
Webster between 1853 and 1854. In 1854 the property became known as the
Webster Hotel.
1865
Between 1854 and 1865, Samuel Gibbons obtained Lot #6 and parts of Lot # 9
and Lot #8. Samuel Gibbons sold the property to Joseph Ford, a local cotton
baron who built Colonial Heights plantation. Joseph Ford died September 1872,
as a result of a train accident, while he was living in the residence currently
known as the Forbes House (next door to the Webster Hotel). Mrs. M. E. F.
Sheldon bought the property known as the Webster Hotel at public auction for
$1305.00.
1883
Mrs. Sheldon sold the same property to B. F. Strickland on December 8, 1883,
for $1500.00
1906
The Green Hotel was renovated under the management of Mr. W.D. McCollum,
formally of Newnan, Georgia.
1908
A. W. Findley bought the Hotel property at public sale for $1500.00. The
property included stable and a storehouse at that time.
1940s-50s
To the best of our records, the Green Hotel was divided into four apartments at
this time. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers Asbury lived in the left downstairs apartment for
many years. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lyons, their sons and daughter, lived in the right
side.
In the late 1940’s, Dr. Harvey Norton, Jr., converted the left apartments into a
medical clinic and enclosed half of the front porch for his office.
1985
Mr. Bobby George bought the property and named it Appletree Nursery and
Antiques. He and his son owned the property for 25 years.
2008
The George Family sold the property to Mr. William Benefield of Cave Spring and
Cedartown.
2010
While the Cave Spring Historical Society began efforts to save the property in
November of 2009, serious efforts began in March of 2010.

Day 1 Of The Archaeological Excavation At The Cabin

Student, UWG researching the Cherokee, Trail of Tears

Student, UWG researching the Cherokee, Trail of Tears: In the early 1800s, the Cherokee Nation in north Georgia was pressed in on all sides. It had no friends in the state, few in the federal government, and settlers and brigands – some of them from we...

Pottery found at the cabin

Found at the Cabin

1863 Newpaper Ad About The Cabin For Sale

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