Clay-Ashland | |
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Township | |
  Clay-Ashland Location in Liberia | |
| Coordinates: 6°25′21″N 10°43′29″W / 6.42250°N 10.72472°W | |
| Country |  Liberia |
| County | Montserrado County |
| District | St. Paul River |
| Established | 1846 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
Clay-Ashland is a township located 10 miles (16 km) from the capital city of Monrovia in Liberia.[1] The town is in the St. Paul River District of Montserrado County.[2] It is named after Henry Clay — a slaveowner and American Colonization Society co-founder who favored gradual emancipation — and his estate Ashland in Lexington, Kentucky.[3]
Established in 1846, Clay-Ashland was part of a colony called Kentucky In Africa,[3] because it was settled by African-American immigrants primarily from the U.S. state of Kentucky under the auspices of the American Colonization Society.
- ^ Kenneth B. Noble, "Leader Of Liberia Refusing To Quit", New York Times, June 7, 1990
- ^ "Liberia: Montserrado County" (PDF). Handbook of Place Codes. Humanitarian Information Centre. 31 December 2005. Retrieved 2008-12-09. [dead link]
- ^ a b "Kentucky in Africa" (special edition of Kentucky Life), Kentucky Educational Television (Aug. 15, 2005).