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…

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…

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…

(Chariton Courier Thursday Jaunuary 3 1889)

1923 Auld Lang Syne yearbook published by the Senior class of Salisbury High School. We have a few of these available for a donation.

Orphan train boys found homes in Chariton County Chariton Courier Thursday, June 30 1887

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…

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…

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!