RADA Cutlery fundraiser for museum expansion
Please consider supporting our on-going efforts to raise funds for building expansion of the museum. We are more than 1/3 of the way there and we can do it with…
Read More The Museum is Expanding!
Last year we had a visitor coin the Chariton County Historical Society & Museum the “Smithsonian of Missouri”. We don’t disagree—we are a truly priceless gem, but that also means…
Read More Salisbury Schools
Salisbury schools through the years – it appears they went by various names: Salisbury Academy to North Missouri (Military) Academy to Salisbury Public. We have school catalogs from these institutions…
Read More Auld Lang Syne
1923 Auld Lang Syne yearbook published by the Senior class of Salisbury High School. We have a few of these available for a donation.
Read More Orphan Train in Chariton County
Orphan train boys found homes in Chariton County Chariton Courier Thursday, June 30 1887
Read More Pleyer School – Part III
A few items from the Pleyer School south of Bynumville have found a new home in our schoolroom. The door handles on a board that shows the wooden dowels to…
Read More Cowboy Laundry
Cowboy laundry is open for business – get his trail clothes washed and hung to dry, soak in a tub, then cross the road for a shave and haircut! The…
Read More Newspapers–Final Years
We now have the final years of the Salisbury Press Spectator, The Brunswicker, and the Chariton County Journal bound and on the shelves in the genealogy library!
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