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Clay County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the county had a population of 221,939,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/29/29047.html )〕 making it the fifth-most populous county in Missouri. Its county seat is Liberty.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was organized January 2, 1822 and named in honor of U.S. Representative Henry Clay from Kentucky, later member of the United States Senate and United States Secretary of State. Clay County is part of the Kansas City, MO-KS Metropolitan Statistical Area and contains many of the city's northern suburbs, along with a substantial portion of the City of Kansas City itself. Clay County owns and operates the (Midwest National Air Center ) in Excelsior Springs. ==History== Clay County was settled primarily from migrants from the Upper Southern states of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. They brought slaves and slaveholding traditions with them, and quickly started cultivating crops similar to those in Middle Tennessee and Kentucky: hemp and tobacco. Clay was one of several counties settled mostly by Southerners to the north and south of the Missouri River. Given their culture and traditions, this area became known as Little Dixie. In 1860 slaves made up 25 percent or more of the county's population.〔T. J. Stiles, ''Jesse James: The Last Rebel of the Civil War'', New York: Vintage Books, 2003, pp.10-11〕 Residents generally supported the Confederacy during the Civil War, as the Confederate flag flew over the county courthouse for many years following the end of the Civil War. Many members of the Latter Day Saint movement found refuge in Clay County in November 1833. In 1836 mobs drove the members of the church from the county.〔Jenson, Andrew. ''Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter-day Saints'' (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1941) p. 144-145〕 Leaders of this church, most notably Joseph Smith, were imprisoned for some months in Clay County in the jail at Liberty (see Liberty Jail). In May 2012 the LDS Church opened a Kansas City Missouri Temple six miles southwest of the Liberty Jail site at 7001 Searcy Creek Parkway in Kansas City, Missouri. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clay County, Missouri」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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