Restoration of The Vann House
Rich Joe and his family were finally forced out of the house in March, 1835 and moved to Webbers Falls, Oklahoma by following the Trail of Tears. They never returned to Georgia or their house. Over the years, the Vann House has had seventeen different owners. In 1952, J. E. Bradford, a physician who had purchased it in 1920, sold the house to the Georgia Historical Commission and The State of Georgia. At the time of its purchase by the commission, the house was in such a state of disrepair that the roof had come off and the elements were taking their toll.
One of the owners had added an additional room after Rich Joe left Georgia. A restoration project began in 1958, which took six years to complete and included demolishing the additional room that was not present in the original house and repainting the house according to its original color scheme of blue, red, green, and yellow. Today it is administered by Georgia's Parks, Recreation and Historic Sites division of the Department of Natural Resources.
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