History
Chesterfield is a community rich in history. It has housed a GI recovery camp, has a farming past and has survived a powerful twister and a great flood, So how did Chesterfield get its name? It was a name that founder Colonel Justus Post copied from the east Coast. He thought it to be a sophisticated name - one that would draw people. Justus Post arrived in Chesterfield in 1815 from Vermont, initially purchasing an estate of 400 acres, including his house.. He would eventually acquire over 21,000 acres, some for as little as $1.25 per acre. He laid out the original nnamed community of Chesterfield straddling Wild Horse Creek Road, between Baxter and Wilson. Wild Horse Creek Road was