Clay-Ashland

Region

Clay - Ashland is a small town in the West African Republic of Liberia in Montserrado County.

The place Clay - Ashland is located approximately 16 kilometers north of the capital Monrovia on the banks of the Saint Paul River. The place name is reminiscent of the wealthy plantation owners, lawyer, politician and Senator Henry Clay of Lexington (Kentucky), he co-founded the American Colonization Society, Ashland was the feudal residence Clays in Lexington (Kentucky). At the request of the Kentucky Group of the American Colonization Society, an approximately 100 square kilometers in size area was acquired in 1846 by the Kru to allow the founding of the colony Kentucky in Africa. As the capital of the new colony of Clay - Ashland site was determined and constructed with emigrants from the U.S. state of Kentucky.

The settlers were very successful in the development of plantations for the cultivation of sugar cane, coffee and ginger.

The predominantly rural place Clay - Ashland was the center of life of two Liberian President: Alfred F. Russell (9th President ) and William D. Coleman (13th President ). The place has the ruins of the " Masonic Temple of Clay - Asland " an architectural monument of the glory days in the late 19th century. In 1869, was founded in " Clay - Ashland " the True Whig Party, she was the state party of the Americo- Liberians.

The boarding school Ricks Institute was founded in 1887 and is regarded as a traditional educational institution in the West African Republic of Liberia. On the left bank of the Saint Paul River, built in the 1960s line the Bong Mining Railway runs along.