Editing Dalton, Missouri (section)

===Dalton Vocational School===
{{Main|Dalton Vocational School Historic District}}
Dalton is best known as the site of the Dalton Vocational School, originally the Barlett Agricultural and Industrial School, also referred to as the "Tuskegee of the Midwest" or "Missouri Tuskegee".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofmissour00lars|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofmissour00lars/page/112 112]|quote=Missouri Tuskegee of the Midwest.|title=A History of Missouri|first1=Lawrence H.|last1=Larsen|first2=William Earl|last2=Parrish|first3=Richard S.|last3=Kirkendall|first4=William E.|last4=Foley|first5=Lawrence O.|last5=Christensen|first6=Perry|last6=McCandless|first7=Gary R.|last7=Kremer|publisher=University of Missouri Press|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> It was founded in 1907 by Nathaniel Bruce, a student and disciple of [[Booker T. Washington]]. The first permanent building was erected in 1909 after flooding forced a move to higher ground. In 1923, the school received funds from the state legislature to construct a model farm home, trade shop, and hog and poultry houses. Eventually the campus would expand to {{convert|123|acre|km2}}. Bruce shared Washington's view that a practical education for African American youth was best. The emphasis was on vocational and agricultural training. African American students from a relatively wide geographical area were bussed to Dalton where they studied agriculture, industrial arts, and home economics.<ref name="sos.mo.gov">{{Cite web |url=http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/africanamerican/guide/rg106.asp |title=RG 106  |access-date=March 19, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527152346/http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/africanamerican/guide/rg106.asp |archive-date=May 27, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>Huber, Patrick J., and Kremer, Gary R. "Nathaniel C. Bruce, Black Education and the 'Tuskegee of the Midwest'."
''Missouri Historical Review'' 86 (October 1991): 37-54 [http://digital.shsmo.org/cdm/ref/collection/mhr/id/45529?_gl=1*x6bmk7*_ga*MTkyNjAzOTc5My4xNjk4NDYxMDM0*_ga_B5NXL6MKLP*MTY5ODU3MjcxNy4yLjAuMTY5ODU3MjcxNy4wLjAuMA.. online].</ref>

The demonstration farm and school came under the supervision of the University of Missouri College of Agriculture in 1924. Eventually Lincoln University, a then all-Black college in [[Jefferson City, Missouri|Jefferson City]], took control of the school. The Supreme Court's 1954 ruling that schools were to be integrated forced the closing of Dalton Vocational School; the last school year was 1955–1956. Buildings and property were later sold at auction. The campus has sat empty since that time and all but two of the buildings are gone.<ref name="sos.mo.gov"/>