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🗓️ 26 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to part two of our conversation with Matthew Sorge. |
| 0:04.9 | Tell me the history of the Nickerson Sneed House. |
| 0:09.1 | So the Nickerson Sneed House is located in late spring, Virginia. |
| 0:13.0 | In 1770s, Francis Canaan owned the property. |
| 0:17.9 | He turned the property or fortified the property because at that point |
| 0:21.8 | in time, Tennessee and Virginia really weren't completely, Virginia was a state, but Tennessee |
| 0:27.1 | wasn't. Tennessee was actually part of North Carolina at this point in time. So the boundaries |
| 0:31.8 | were very different and the frontier land at that point in time extended pretty much into what is modern day, you know, |
| 0:39.9 | Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee. |
| 0:42.4 | So a lot of areas as you spread that way further west were heavily fortified because of, you know, |
| 0:49.0 | the Native Americans and the Indians. |
| 0:50.8 | That was areas that weren't really populated by a lot of people. |
| 0:54.7 | So they were more fortifications. So he fortified it, and it was known as Kincahannon's fort. And actually during |
| 1:00.8 | the Battle of Kings Mountain in a Revolutionary War, those soldiers that were on their way |
| 1:05.9 | to Kings Mountain, South Carolina, actually stayed a period of time at the fort. So there was |
| 1:10.7 | almost 400 soldiers |
| 1:12.0 | that camped on that almost 900 acres right there in and around where the house sits today. |
| 1:17.5 | The original log cabin structure that existed, the main room, one of the main rooms was kept. |
| 1:23.6 | In 1835, Dr. Nickerson Sneed built the house that sits there today. |
| 1:29.8 | He actually, some of the bricks were built on site. |
| 1:35.3 | The site, the house was built that sits there today by him and his wife, Betsy Sneed. |
| 1:40.3 | Betsy came from a very prominent family that owned most of the Glade Springs area. |
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