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The Liberty 53 School District operates ten elementary, four middle and two senior high schools. [20] Liberty has a public library, a branch of the Mid-Continent Public Library. [21] Liberty is also home to William Jewell College, a private, four-year liberal arts college of more than 900 undergraduate students that was founded in 1849. [22]
Auto daredevil show at the Missouri State Fair, 1960s. The Missouri State Fair is the state fair for the state of Missouri, which has operated since 1901 in Sedalia, Missouri. It includes daily concerts, exhibits and competitions of animals, homemade crafts, shows, and many food/lemonade stands, and it lasts 11 days.
As of the 2020 census, the county had a population of 253,335, [1] making it the fifth-most populous county in Missouri. Its county seat is Liberty. [2] The county was organized January 2, 1822, and named in honor of U.S. Representative Henry Clay from Kentucky, later a member of the United States Senate and United States Secretary of State.
For a short time, during the Spanish–American War in 1898, the Liberty Tribune was published daily. [8] In February 2017, the Liberty Tribune merged with sister publications The Kearney Courier and The Smithville Herald to form the Courier-Tribune. The consolidated weekly newspaper was owned by St. Joseph-based News-Press & Gazette Company. [9]
It encompasses six contributing buildings associated with the African-American community of Liberty. The district developed between about 1900 and 1942, and contains a variety of National Folk housing types, as well as the brick Garrison School and the limestone African Methodist Church. [ 2 ]
Location of Clay County in Missouri. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Clay County, Missouri. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Clay County, Missouri, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
Odd Fellows Home District is a national historic district located at Liberty, Clay County, Missouri.It encompasses three contributing buildings, one contributing site, and four contributing structures associated with an institutional home and hospital.
The average population of Missouri's counties is 53,880; St. Louis County is the most populous (987,059), and Worth County is the least (1,907). The average land area is 599 sq mi (1,550 km 2 ). The largest county is Texas County (1,179 sq mi, 3,054 km 2 ) and the smallest is St. Louis city (61.9 sq mi, 160 km 2 ).