Tearing Down – Building Up! The 2nd Clay County Courthouse was razed in 1934 to make room for the new, and still standing, courthouse. What happens to the offices and officer holders when the county was in-between buildings? They scramble and find new quarters. In 1934 the “Old” Cockrell Building on Kansas Street at Prairie …
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Freedom Fountain
The Freedom Fountain on the northeast corner of the Clay County Courthouse lawn was dedicated in 2001. Mrs. Lulu Johnson Fielder, 102 years old at the time, was the first person to drink from the fountain followed by then Governor Bob Holden and former Liberty City Councilman Sam Houston. The lavender dress, hat and matching …
The Dred Scott Decision
The first Negro History week was created by historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History 1926. Fifty years later in 1976, President Gerald Ford issued the first African American History Month proclamation, as has every president since. February is the month we honor the legacies of African …
Dinah Aryers Trigg Allen, Pioneer
Liberty Tribune February 23, 1883 “Early Days in Clay County – Editor Tribune: – I have carefully read the articles which have recently appeared in our county papers in regard to early days in the county, and while I do not agree with the writers in some respects, yet I think they are entitled to …