Brown House
- Also Known As: Brown, James Farmstead
- Also Known As: Yarnell House
- Address: 9521 Ooltewah-Georgetown Rd
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1828/00/00 | John Brown (Cherokee) | Home | John Brown settles in the Long Savannah neighborhood about 7 mi north of Ooltewah and builds his house, c 1828, and definitely by 1835 when it was known to be standing. | |||
1835/00/00 | John Brown (Cherokee) | Owner | The Cherokee census of 1835 shows that Brown, one of the wealthiest of the Cherokees, has 100 acres of land under cultivation in Hamilton County, and that he owned 28 slaves. | Slavery In America | ||
1838/00/00 | With the Cherokee removal in 1838, physician Dr John L Yarnell, who had married John Brown's daughter, buys the Borown House. Yarnell had settled among the Cherokees south of the Tennessee River and continued to practice medicine among the white people. | |||||
1857/00/00 | The next owner of the house was Dr Thomas H Roddye, who married the Yarnells' only child. Roddye, a graduate of the medical college of the University of Nashville in 1857, was considered one of the best rural doctors in Tennessee during this time. |
Particulars for Brown House: | |
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Historic Use | Agricultural outbuildings |
Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Architectural Style | Federal Style |
Sight Category | Historic District |
Criteria | Historic Event |
Cultural Affiliation | Native American |
Criteria | Person |
Area of Significance | Politics-government |
Owner | Private |
Historic Use | Single dwelling |
Area of Significance | Social History |
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