Chilton Dean House

Thomas Chilton was a Pastor at the old Baptist church. His house was built in 1854 He lived there until he died. In the 1880s David dean purchased the home and he put up a white picket fence around it. He got the wood at his mill. The wood is Heart pine.

     In 1863 a gang called the Jessie James gang were trying to avoid arrest and Bob Oliver, a member of the gang stole a horse from the Cartwrights. they followed the gang to the Chilton deans house that was Bobs mothers home. There they had a shootout. The Cartwrights said they would not shoot him if he came out instead they stabbed him with a Bowie Knife.