Bartlett Agricultural And Industrial School
Nathaniel C. Bruce (1865 - June 27, 1942) was the driving force behind the school's founding. He was born in Virginia and had worked previously at a high school for African Americans in St. Joseph, Missouri. He described plans for it to become the "Tuskegee (Tuskegee Institute) of the West". Plans for the school were met with opposition from white residents who protested. A June 26, 1909 article in The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune advanced fears the school would bring additional "Negroes" to the area and establish them in the majority. It described plans for the school as being driven by people from St. Joseph.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. In 2021, a plaque at the Dalton Cemetery was added commemorating Bruce.