Welcome to part two of our conversation with Matthew Sorge.

Tell me the history of the Nickerson Sneed House.

So the Nickerson Sneed House is located in late spring, Virginia.

In 1770s, Francis Canaan owned the property.

He turned the property or fortified the property because at that point

in time, Tennessee and Virginia really weren't completely, Virginia was a state, but Tennessee

wasn't. Tennessee was actually part of North Carolina at this point in time. So the boundaries

were very different and the frontier land at that point in time extended pretty much into what is modern day, you know,

Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee.

So a lot of areas as you spread that way further west were heavily fortified because of, you know,

the Native Americans and the Indians.

That was areas that weren't really populated by a lot of people.

So they were more fortifications. So he fortified it, and it was known as Kincahannon's fort. And actually during

the Battle of Kings Mountain in a Revolutionary War, those soldiers that were on their way

to Kings Mountain, South Carolina, actually stayed a period of time at the fort. So there was

almost 400 soldiers

that camped on that almost 900 acres right there in and around where the house sits today.

The original log cabin structure that existed, the main room, one of the main rooms was kept.

In 1835, Dr. Nickerson Sneed built the house that sits there today.

He actually, some of the bricks were built on site.

The site, the house was built that sits there today by him and his wife, Betsy Sneed.

Betsy came from a very prominent family that owned most of the Glade Springs area.

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