![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story of Dalton School begins 100 years ago. The last principal to live there was Columbia's Eliot Battle. The building, called the new Bartlett Hall, is one of the two structures remaining from the Dalton Vocational School, which closed its doors in June 1956. The windows and doors have caved in, the roof leaks, but the brick looks fresh and alive, as if it were waiting for someone to bring windows and doors and a new roof, heating and cooling, electricity and plumbing - and people. Unless you're going to the Department of Conservation's fishing access on the Missouri River, you don't "happen" to drive through Dalton, located three miles south of Highway 24 on Route J, halfway between Keytesville and Brunswick.Īt the highest point on the bluff, hidden in the trees, is the brick shell of what seems to be a still-solid old school building. There are as many buildings collapsing as usable. A couple of churches and a post office remain, but the Chariton County village is no more than a tenth of the population it enjoyed 60 years ago.ĭalton sits on the edge of the wide, lush, floodplain of the Missouri River, half of it on the bluff overlooking the valley and half of it tucked between the bluff and the railroad tracks. ![]() Except for the grain elevator and a railroad siding, Dalton qualifies as a ghost town. ![]()
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