 In 1979, Dalton resident Rod Skillman was a walk-on for the Missouri football team at defensive tackle and later played professionally for the New Jersey Generals ('83–'84) and Hamilton Tiger-Cats ('84–'92).As for the village of Dalton today, the decline of the rural economy and flooding have taken their toll.The 1993 flood reduced Dalton to a grain elevator, a post office, two churches, a community center and a few houses.