Harrison Bay State Park
http://tennessee.gov/environment/parks/HarrisonBay
and
http://www.stateparks.com/harrison_bay.html
(has map to zoom--  Find Snow Hill Road off hwy 58

Harrison Bay
State Park
8411 Harrison Bay Road
Harrison , TN 37341
Office: 423-344-6214

"The 1,200-acre Harrison Bay State Park, with approximately 40 miles
of Chickamauga Lake shoreline, was originally developed as a
Tennessee Valley Authority recreation demonstration area in the
1930's.
Its name is derived from a large bay at the main channel of the
Tennessee River that covers the old town of Harrison,
 and the last Cherokee Campground.
The parklands are of historic significance because the Cherokee
Campground consisted of three villages which were ruled by one of the
last great Cherokee Chieftains, Chief Joe Vann.
 This beautiful wooded park is a haven for campers, boaters and
fishermen, as well as picnickers and other day-use visitors from
Chattanooga and the surrounding tri-state area."
**
Another history:
"Located on the east bank of Chickamauga Lake,
 Harrison Bay State Park is north of Chattanooga.
....
Today the park contains one of the best marinas on any TVA lake and a
full array of recreational facilities. In 1998 the park opened a Jack
Nicklaus-designed Bear Trace Golf Course.

***
VANN'S TOWN and "old HARRISON, HAMILTON CO TN"
has
2A 38 - HISTORICAL MARKER - JOSEPH VANN'S TOWN
http://historical-markers.net/Pages/States/SingleSigns/JosephVannsTown.htm

About 1/2 mile N of here,
 a Chickamauga village was destroyed by Evan Shelby's punitive
expedition of 1779.  Following his expulsion from Georgia, this
wealthy Cherokee chief built a homestead here, with three racetracks,
about which a new village grew up.
 It was abandoned at the Cherokee expulsion of 1838.
 Vann's house stood until 1900. (map)
 ***

CHEROKEE TRAIL OF TEARS near CHATTANOOGA  --
    VANN'S TOWN Hamilton Co TN
http://www.ajc.com/travel/content/travel/southeast/tn_stories/043006cherokee.html
...
Butrick's Trail of Tears
But, of course, the heartbreaking story of the Trail of Tears didn't
end in Chattanooga in 1838.
In his journal, Butrick details how he, too, followed the trail.
 As a missionary, he wanted to go with his Cherokee church.
With permission from Chief Ross, in October 1838 Butrick and his wife
moved from Brainerd Mission to camp near Vann's Town. As many as
1,000 Cherokees camped here, finally leaving for the west on Nov. 1,
1838."

Vann's Town
"To reach the site of this camp, follow Tenn. 58 north for 7.6 miles.
Look for the Vann's Town historical marker next to Chickamauga Lake.
In the early 1800s, "Rich Joe" Vann was the wealthiest man — Cherokee
or white — in the area. (Joseph was the son of James Vann, who built
the Chief Vann House near Chatsworth, Ga.) In the 1835 census, Joseph
owned a mill, a ferry, 35 houses and numerous slaves. In 1836, he was
among those who emigrated to Arkansas Territory, taking his slaves
along."

Looking for "JOE VANN" found also "JAMES VANN" --cherokee land
at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Vann
...
"James Vann's property included the land about the
 mouth of Ooltewah (Wolftever) Creek in the modern Hamilton County,
Tennessee which became the seat of county government later known as
Harrison but originally called Vann's Town,
which also had another of Vann's Ferries....
His primary heir, and the one who received the Spring Place
plantation, was his son Joseph "Rich Joe" Vann."

"JAMES VANN"
Genealogy of VANN family:
at
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lpproots/Neeley/cvann.htm

"Vann family, prominent among the Cherokees in Tennessee, was of
Scottish ancestry tracing its descent from the reign of King David I
of Scotland, 1124- 1153."

The seat of the Vann's was at Barnbarrack, near Wigton, in Galloway
Scotland.
....
"The ancestor of the Vann family among the Cherokees was Clement Vann
...
Clement Vann married WA-WLI, a full blood Cherokee woman, and they
are mention in the reports of the Moravian missionaries, as their
proximity to the mission brought them in touch with the white man
stationed there.
....
"Rich Joe" owned a large plantation on the Tennessee River near the
mouth of the Ooltewah Creek. He moved his family to this location and
resided there two or three years, until he could establish himself in
the west.

A town was laid out on his Hamilton Country farm which was called,
Vanntown. In 1840 the town of Harrison was developed on an adjoining
property, and the county seat of Hamilton County was moved south to
the Tennessee River to this location.

Joseph Vann is listed in the Cherokee census of 1835 as a resident of
the Cherokee nation within the chartered limits of Hamilton County,
Tennessee, his family consisting of fifteen persons. He owned 110
slaves and on his plantation there were thirty-five houses, a mill
and a ferry boat.

Joseph Vann removed to the West in 1836.
He located at Webbers Falls on the Arkansas River and operated a line
of steamboats on the Arkansas, Mississippi, and Ohio Rivers.

He was accidentally killed in the explosion of one of his boats, the
"Lucy Walker" which was blown up near Louisville, Kentucky on October
26, 1844.

5. Joseph Vann, son of Chief Joseph Vann and his wife Margaret Scott
Vann, married first, Jennie Springton, born December 23, 1804, died
August 4, 1863. She married as her second husband, Thomas Mitchell.
.."
 
Comparing to File on ELDER CEMETERY near SNOW HILL ROAD:
http://www.tngenweb.org/hamilton/cemetery/elderc.htm

"The Elder Cemetery is twenty miles north of Chattanooga.
 Follow highway # 58 to the Leamons store which is eighteen miles
north.
Leave the highway at store going right on the Snowhill road,
 then turn left.
The Cemetery is north ten miles to the Dunning and Harris farm. The
land was given by Mr Charles Elder, he being the first person buried
there and the marker is 1863. There are one hundred unmarked graves,
all of the old limestone rocks."