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Snelson-Brinker House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Ruins of the house
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Location	Route 8, near Steelville, Missouri
Coordinates	37°56′56″N 91°30′4″W / 37.94889°N 91.50111°W / 37.94889; -91.50111
Area	1.7 acres (0.69 ha)
Built	1834 (1834)
Architectural style	Double-Pen Log Dwelling
MPS	Cherokee Trail of Tears MPS
NRHP reference No.	07000576
Added to NRHP	June 21, 2007

Snelson-Brinker House was a historic home located near Steelville, Crawford County, Missouri. It was built by Levi Lane Snelson in 1834, as a one-story, double-pen log dwelling, and sold to John B. Brinker in 1837. Later that year, the property was the site of the murder of Brinker's two-year-old daughter Vienna, for which Mary the slave became the youngest person to be executed in Missouri history. The house was extensively rebuilt in the late 1980s. Also on the property are the log and frame smokehouse/root cellar (c. 1880), a cast iron pump (c. 1910), an open field and beyond the field is a cemetery with graves dating back to the 1830s. The property was eventually operated by the St. James Historical Preservation Society as a historic house museum.

The Snelson-Brinker House is significant as a campsite and gravesite during the period of the Trail of Tears. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. It burned down on July 4, 2017, due to vandalism.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Philip Thomason and Teresa Douglass (July 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Snelson-Brinker House" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2016-12-01.] (includes 9 photos from 2002)
3. Historic Snelson-Brinker cabin burns on Fourth of July weekend

External links

• Cherokee Nation website

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