Celina was a busy place at the beginning of the twentieth century as forests were felled and floated down the Obey River. Now the Obey adjoins the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s Dale Hollow Lake, a fishing Mecca. Free Hills is an African-American . . . — — Map (db m201163) HM
Salt works established early 1790s; Clay County established here in 1807
The Goose Creek Salt Works dates from the mid 1790s when it was known as the “Langford Works” and was well known throughout Kentucky and in Tennessee and . . . — — Map (db m87858) HM
Originally this site was probably a salt lick used by buffalo, which made the path to it. Indians used the path to make war between northern and southern tribes. Numerous early American explorers used the path as did hunters, who found animals . . . — — Map (db m87857) HM
During the Civil War, the residents of the eastern and Cumberland River sections of present-day Clay County (then part of Jackson and Overton Counties) were usually Confederate sympathizers, while those in the western section supported the Union. . . . — — Map (db m74297) HM
Capt. Jacob C. “Jake” Bennett, a native Kentuckian and noted Confederate partisan ranger, is buried in Donaldson Cemetery (four miles north of here). During the war, bushwhackers and guerrillas on both sides raided the sparsely populated borderlands . . . — — Map (db m112197) HM
Private David Drake Blue
(1818-1896)
Born in Kentucky, David Drake (Blue) moved to Liberty in the 1850’s, along with Miles C. Drake’s other enslaved estate. He is recorded on census records through his live as “mulatto,” meaning he was . . . — — Map (db m274063) HM
As far back as anyone can recall, the cave on the right bank of Meramec River, one hundred miles upstream from its confluence with the Mississippi River, was called Saltpeter Cave. Anyone venturing into Saltpeter, or any of the other large . . . — — Map (db m173410) HM
Camp established by Union Army to train and drill troops and as a place of rendezvous. In October 1861, Col. S. S. Stanton, 25th Tennessee Infantry, Confederate Army, was ordered to capture the encampment. He marched his regiment into the county and . . . — — Map (db m236252) HM
The initial inhabitants of Gladstone were Native Americans of the Missouri Osage, Blackhawk, Fox and Sac tribes. The first settlers came from Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and South Carolina. In the 1880's, W. E. Winner bought three 80-acre farms, . . . — — Map (db m252139) HM
Side 1
Clay County was formed by an act of the Alabama General Assembly on December 7, 1866. Less than a year later, Ashland was established as the county seat on land donated by Hollingsworth Watts for the construction of a . . . — — Map (db m95087) HM
Clay County
Established Dec. 7, 1866
Boundaries of eastern Talladega County and western Randolph County were redrawn in 1866 to create the 58th county of Alabama. The name honors U. S. Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky. Historical place . . . — — Map (db m95095) HM
John Jack Houston
(1858-1934)
John Jack Houston, pioneer patriarch of the Houston family, was born in North Carolina and migrated to Liberty during the 1870s. In 1878, he traveled to Sandusky, Ohio to marry Elvira “Ella” Savage, whose . . . — — Map (db m274433) HM
Corporal Marshall Bailey was working a routine stop at the Wallback Park & Ride off Interstate 79 when he was fatally wounded.
Marshall graduated from Poca High School in 1988 where he played basketball all four years. His senior year, the team . . . — — Map (db m246889)
Kate “Katie” Atchison Gordon Nelson (1877 – 1953)
Kate “Katie” Atchison Gordon Nelson was born in Liberty, Missouri in 1877. Descendants claimed that she told her family that her biological father was David Rice Atchison, the proslavery . . . — — Map (db m274429) HM
Jesse Dodd, Sr.
(1906-1992)
A Liberty entrepreneur, Jesse Dodd, Sr. was the son of Robert and Anna Belle Dodd, who settled in Clay County during the Great Migration from Bowling Green, Kentucky. Jesse completed his education at Garrison . . . — — Map (db m274075) HM
From Chattel to Citizens 1822-1865
Liberty’s white settlers came primarily from the southern states of Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee, and the use of enslaved workers was common in Clay County from the time of its organization in 1822. . . . — — Map (db m273914) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
