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Liberty is a city in and the county seat of Clay County, Missouri, United States [6] and is a suburb of Kansas City, located in the Kansas City Metro Area. As of the 2020 United States Census [ 7 ] the population was 30,167.
This is a list of airports in Missouri (a U.S. state), grouped by type and sorted by location.It contains all public-use and military airports in the state. Some private-use and former airports may be included where notable, such as airports that were previously public-use, those with commercial enplanements recorded by the FAA or airports assigned an IATA airport code.
The Liberty Arsenal, known by Federal authorities as the Missouri Depot [1] was a United States Army arsenal at Liberty, Missouri in Clay County, Missouri. The depot was seized twice by Southern partisans, once during the Kansas troubles in 1855, and again shortly after the outbreak of the American Civil War . [ 2 ]
In 1827, the United States War Department decided to replace a 22-year-old arsenal, Fort Belle Fontaine (located 15 miles (24 km) north of St. Louis on the bluffs above the Missouri River) with a larger facility to meet the needs of the rapidly growing military forces in the West. Lt. Martin Thomas selected a 37-acre (150,000 m 2) tract of land on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and ...
The 16th Military Police Brigade is a military police brigade of the United States Army headquartered at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. This brigade has the only airborne -qualified military police units in the U.S. Army, outside of the 82nd MP Company [ 1 ] of the 82nd Airborne Division.
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Mexico competed with other MO cities for the title, "Capital of Little Dixie." [10] The historic downtown square, with the typical courthouse as the focal point, is surrounded by dozens of multi-story brick buildings—some dating to the founding of the community. There are, of course, other historic spots including Simmons Stables and Graceland.
Henry L. Routt (1824–1881) was a veteran of the Mexican War and a Border Ruffian during the Bleeding Kansas troubles. He was one of those present in the first seizure of the Liberty Arsenal in 1855 and was the leader of the second seizure of the arsenal in 1861 during the American Civil War.