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Friends of the Vann House Land Campaign has begun a new phase. Thanks to all who donated funds, a large portion of the land next to the Vann House has been purchased. In addition, Friends of the Vann House now has an option to purchase the rest of the 85-acre lot. The next phase of the campaign will be to raise funds for that land by the summer of 2004. Persons interested in furthering the goal, please contact Friends of the Vann House. See Update. In the meantime, anyone interested in the project, the Vann House, or other projects of Friends of the Vann House, may contact Tim Howard. |
Contact Person: Tim Howard, Trustee of Whitfield-Murray Historical Society and Member of Friends of the Vann House.
Contact Address: Tim Howard, c/o Friends of the Vann House, 82 Highway 225 N, Chatsworth, GA 30705.
E-mail: 
More about campaign. Other contacts.
Please note: Various addresses have been published for Tim, including his residential address and some addresses that have been outdated by our current postal system. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please contact page editor, dkp (at) southernmuse.com for explanation.
As always, Friends of the Vann House, Whitfield-Murray Historical Society, and the Trust for Public Land welcome your donations. To inquire about current projects, see contacts, below:
Friends of the Vann House
82 Hwy 225 N
Chatsworth, GA 30705
Phone: (706) 695-2598 (number for Vann House Historic Site)
Alternate contact:
Whitfield-Murray Historical Society
715 Chattanooga Ave.
Dalton GA 30720
Phone: (706) 278-0217
To learn more about preserving public lands:
Trust for Public Land
1447 Peachtree St., NE
Atlanta, GA 30309 Read More. Go back to top of page.
Please do not make contributions to Southern Muse or to the creator of this web page. This page was created as a courtesy to Whitfield-Murray Historical Society and Friends of the Vann House by D.K. Pritchett, Southern Muse site owner/author and current 2002-2003 Publicity Officer of Whitfield-Murray Historical Society. Thanks for visiting my site!
The Vann House is located in historic Spring Place, near Chatsworth, Georgia. Land on the northwest corner of Highways 225 and 52 was in danger of aggressive commercial development by the owners, who had expressed an intent of building a mobile-home park or strip mall. Thanks to friends and donors, the first phase of the land campaign raised $1,500,000, enough to purchase forty acres ~ almost half of the 85-acre lot. The next phase of the campaign focuses on raising funds to purchase the remaining portion of approximately 45 acres of land. Persons interested in furthering the campaign, either by donating funds or by volunteering time, services or goods, should contact Friends of the Vann House.
Whitfield-Murray Historical Society and Friends of the Vann House are focused on preserving as much of the historic Spring Place community as possible. Related lands recently saved by the efforts of Friends of the Vann House, Whitfield-Murray Historical Society and matching state grants and/or generous donations by local landowners include "God's Acre," the old Moravian Mission cemetery near the Chief Vann House. Lands lost to commercial development due to lack of foresight on our part are the two southern corners of intersection 225 & 52-A, facing the Vann House, and a couple of lots in the Historic District of Spring Place, just south of the Vann House on Georgia Hwy. 225, where now sits a modern and very commercial-looking Dollar General Store. Back to top of page.
Helpful Links:
Whitfield-Murray Historical Society
Vann House State Historic Site or "Chief Vann House." Please note: government pages are notoriously difficult to link, due to long URL's and continuously changing formats. To locate a link to Vann House information, go to Georgia State Parks home page, click on the following links: Historic Sites and then Show all Historic Sites. You may also go to Google and search for vann house state historic site.
Trust for Public Land (Click on Region: Georgia) This site has no information on our current land drive, but provides contact information for the agency.
Trust for Public Land, Georgia division
Disclaimers & other comments:
Please note: Whitfield-Murray Historical Society, a private, not-for-profit organization, is not to be confused with Whitfield Preservation Committee, a government agency of Whitfield County, Georgia. Whitfield-Murray Historical Society does not condemn properties in order to preserve them, nor do we have the power to do so. Rather, Whitfield-Murray Historical Society raises funds to purchase land in order to preserve and maintain it for the enjoyment of the community. We greatly appreciate all contributions to this land drive and to other efforts of the historical society!
Verify: Southern Muse encourages readers to confirm the validity of the information found on this web page. To do so, please contact the Vann House State Historic Site or Whitfield-Murray Historical Society directly, either by using the contact information found on their web sites (above), or by calling information for Chatsworth, Georgia, and asking for their phone numbers.
Disclaimer: Page designed by Southern Muse as a courtesy to local charities. Please report any errors found on this page to dkp (at) southernmuse.com. The source of information contained on this page was a contact of Friends of the Vann House, as well as a general knowledge by D.K. Pritchett of the land-campaign effort. Southern Muse cannot take any legal responsibility for the fund drive or any complications arising out of the drive. However, Southern Muse does take responsibility for the editorial content of this web page. Please report any errors found therein to: dkp (at) southernmuse.com. This document was created on 8 November 2003 and updated on 4 Jan 2004.
