Neff Tavern Smokehouse Explained

Neff Tavern Smokehouse
Coordinates:	39.0966°N -93.0441°W
Added:	November 30, 1978
Refnum:	78001676

The Neff Tavern Smokehouse is a historic smokehouse located on the old Santa Fe Trail northeast of Napton, Saline County, Missouri. It is off Interstate 70 and 6 miles west of Arrow Rock, Missouri. Missouri pioneer Isaac Neff (aka Isaac Nave) was born in Tennessee in 1797 and died in Missouri in 1878. He originally built a log tavern on the site in 1837. The Santa Fe Trail went between the tavern and the barn (later a stage station), skirted the family cemetery, and continued to the northwest. The tavern was torn down in 1890. The stone smokehouse is the only remaining original structure on Neff's former property.^[1]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

References

• History of Saline County, Missouri, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo., 1881.
• The Nave Family - 500 Years: Switzerland, Tennessee, Missouri & Montana, by Arian E. Collins, Bordertown Publications, San Diego, Calif., 2006.
• History of Pioneer Families of Missouri, by William Bryan and Robert Rose, originally published by Bryan Brand & Co., St. Louis, Mo., 1876. Reprinted, Lucas Brothers, Columbia, Mo., 1935.

External links

• The Nave Family
• National Register of Historic Places

Notes and References

1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Neff Tavern Smokehouse. 2017-02-01. Npelle Soren and Mrs. Henry (Jean Tyree) Hamilton. PDF. June 1978. Missouri Department of Natural Resources. (includes 5 photographs)