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McNair's Stand in 1930. From left to right are Robert Bruce Ross (a Cherokee from Oklahoma), Judge Charles Lusk, Mr. and Mrs. John Carroll Jones and Mrs. Buster Jones. Captain David McNair (1774–1836) was an early colonial son who later married Chief James Vann's daughter Delilah in 1801. Captain McNair earned the rank of captain fighting in the War of 1812. He also fought beside Andrew Jackson at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend while being mustered in Colonel Morgan's Regim

Vann's House as seen in 1934. In 1803, deep in Cherokee Territory, Chief James Vann, a Half-Scot, half-Cherokee, set in motion the construction of what would be the grandest home in all of the Cherokee Nation. Set on over 800 acres in a place known as Vann's Place, the massive brick mansion was built. Vann's seen on an 1822 map of Georgia. Notice it is along the path of the Federal Road Chief Vann (1768-1809) was a wealthy Cherokee and large slaveholder, having over 100 sl