The house of course went through many changes such as electricity being added, indoor plumbing and even a modern kitchen. The house of late Victorian Style had steeply pitched roofs and end gables. It had a wood frame with batten and board siding with yellow shingles on the roof. Today if you walked inside it you would see much of the original wood and fabric. It once had porches all the way around it and those somehow were destroyed and today are being rebuilt. 

Eventually in 1911 Wesley H. Snyder bought the home and renamed the Indian Mound to Snyder Hill nearby. The Snyder family remained in the house till the late 1980s when it was sold to the Nature Conservancy and then to the National Park Service. 

They say some later owners included Frank and Penny Instone. So perhaps they were the last residents to live here before the house became completely abandoned.  There is alot of mixed feelings inside the house I mean everything is in the condition as it was when it was built. But its a gloomy house sitting on a giant Indian mound over looking the motionless Mosquito Lagoon. 

We also believe that the ghost that are here may not be related to the Indian mound at all but rather the previous family members. They seemed to take a big interest in our visit following us around. I was told by an unknown source that a suicide or two had occurred within this home. What drove these people to killing themselves was it coincidence or strange energies at work? 

Today The house unfortunately is suffering some deterioration and hopefully one day will be restored to look like it did a century ago. But the question is will the house claim another life?

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