Early in the Civil War, this federal arsenal located near Liberty, Missouri fell to a group of Southern sympathizers in what has been called the "Fort Sumter of Missouri."

Clay County is located in the U.S. state of Missouri and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the county had a population of 253,335, [1] making it the fifth …

Jul 30, 2013 · Early border town, prominent trading and outfitting center, and one of the farthest northwest of U. S. towns to be based on southern culture and economy. Settled about 1820, …

Jun 30, 2024 · Platte Purchase Drive marks the site of the western border of the United States from 1821, when Missouri became a state, until 1837. (A historical marker located in Kansas …

CLAY, a county in the W. N. W. part of Missouri, has an area of 415 square miles. The Missouri river forms its S. boundary, it is also drained by Fishing creek and Smith's fork of Little Platte …

Clay County, Missouri, especially, was a hotbed of bushwhacker activity. Several guerrilla bands, numbering over 500 bushwhackers and led by Colonel Sidney Jackman, were headquartered …

The graphic shows the straight line western border of Missouri. The Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery in the Unorganized Territory (dark green) and permitted it in Missouri …

Bursheba's resulting exile took her north to Clay County, where she lingered, her family broken and wealth gone, until the war finally burned itself out. The Civil War touched the lives of …

CLAY, a county in the W. N. W. part of Missouri, has an area of 415 square miles. The Missouri river forms its S. boundary, it is also drained by Fishing creek and Smith's fork of Little Platte …

Feb 23, 2017 · There’s perhaps no better example of this than Missouri, a border state claimed by both the Union and the Confederacy. The ongoing struggle to deal with this history recently …