Located in the heart of Cave Spring in beautiful Rolater Park, the Hearn Inn is available for meetings and for overnight accommodations (room or entire inn). The historic structure was originally built as the female dormitory for the Georgia School for the Deaf.
Hearn Academy was established by the Baptists as the Manual Labor School [a permanent school of high order] in 1838. in 1903, it was renamed Hearn Academy. After a fire, the building was replaced with the present structure in 1910. It closed in 1925. It now is used as an event space.
Cave Spring Baptist Church was constituted on September 24, 1836 and is third oldest Baptist congregation in Northwest Georgia. Before this simple Greek Revival structure was built in 1851, they met in a general store and a dormitory of the Hearn School.
Located on Alabama Road is the Presbyterian church, built ca. 1870. Located in the midst of a residential district, the institution influenced major developments in the growth of Cave Spring. The Presbyterian church is not currently available to rent.
This hand-hewn cabin is believed to have been built by Avery Vann, Jr., (1770-1845). Vann, a Scottish trader who married a Cherokee woman, was the brother of Cherokee Chief James Vann and his prominence in the area led to its designation as Vann’s Valley.
An old caboose, which was donated to the Cave Spring Historic Society, was moved from the outskirts of town near the old railroad depot building to a new site adjacent to the Vann Cherokee Cabin on the square downtown.