Snelson-Brinker House was a historic home located near Steelville,

Crawford County, Missouri Crawford County is a county located in the east-central portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. At the 2020 Census, the population was 23,056. Its county seat is Steelville. The county was organized in 1829 and is named after U.S. Senator Wil ...

. 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 Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of about 60,000 people of the " Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850, and the additional thousands of Native Americans and their black slaves within that were ethnically cleansed by the U ...

.] (includes 9 photos from 2002) The house was listed on the

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in 2007. It burned down on July 4, 2017, due to vandalism.Historic Snelson-Brinker cabin burns on Fourth of July weekend
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Cherokee Nation website
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Historic house museums in Missouri Houses completed in 1834 Buildings and structures in Crawford County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Crawford County, Missouri Buildings and structures in the United States destroyed by arson {{CrawfordCountyMO-NRHP-stub