The house is significant in the area of European settlement of North America . In the 18th and early 19th centuries , the Cherokee Nation included the area that would become Walker County . The Georgia Land Lottery of 1832 followed by the removal of the Cherokee by the federal government opened the area to white settlement . Spencer Marsh moved his family to La Fayette c. 1835 from Newton County , Georgia , and became one of the pioneers of the county . During the early years of his life on the frontier , Mr. Marsh had many dealings with his Cherokee neighbors and was given the name Estachee by the Cherokee Indians . Marsh House history notes that one of his servants at the Marsh House , Ninatoya , was a Cherokee woman who was forced west on the Trail of Tears in the late 1830s . The home he built c. 1836-1837 is one of the few surviving houses from that period of early white settlement
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Marsh-Warthen House