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Sneed Cabin Grand Opening
May 31, 1 p.m.
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The Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center will hold a grand opening ceremony for the newly completed Sneed Cabin on Friday, May 31, at 1 p.m. on the grounds of the Humphrey Heritage Village. Members of the Sneed family will attend to witness the revitalization of the historic structure.
The Sneed Cabin reconstruction began on March 18 and ended in mid-May. This will become the fifth building in the Village and the first to be added in 30 years! It will join the 1893 U.S. Land Office, 1905 Glidewell Mansion, 1902 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, and the 1896 Turkey Creek Schoolhouse.
Originally built in Cleveland, Oklahoma, during the winter of 1900 by Everett and Mandy Sneed with the help of several neighbors, the newly relocated cabin will serve as a great example of early homestead housing in the eastern part of the Cherokee Outlet, thus increasing the scope of the Heritage Center.
The addition of the Sneed Cabin opens up many opportunities for new and returning visitors to CSRHC. The building will be used to demonstrate the daily lives of settlers through demonstrations such as hearth cooking, along with utilizing its homestead history in the pioneer life programming enjoyed by many area fourth-grade field trips.
CSRHC would like to thank PH Log Homes, Wilkinson Masonry, Mike Shaw, Rillis Howard, David Parker, Old Home Rescue and everyone else who worked on this project. To see the Sneed Cabin for yourself and learn about its history, visit the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center. It is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information about the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center, please visit csrhc.org or call 580-237-1907.
The Sneed Cabin, originally built in the eastern part of the Cherokee Outlet in 1900. The one-room simple log home is where six of the Sneed’s nine children were born.
