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Title: County Road
Description: View of a road in Lafayette County, Missouri improved through the efforts of the WPA.
Date: 1939-03-28
Object Type: Photograph

Title: County Road and Residences
Description: View of residences and road in Lafayette County, Missouri improved through the efforts of the WPA.
Date: 1939-03-28
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bridge Construction Project
Description: View of unidentified men working on a WPA bridge construction project in Lafayette County, Missouri.
Date: 1938-11-21
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Lexington Sheet
Description: Topographical and geological map of an area of Lafayette and Ray counties in Missouri adjacent to the Missouri River. The towns of Lexington, Mayview, and Odessa are included, as are railroads, mine shafts, and information about bedrock type and mineral locations.
Date: 1910
Object Type: Map

Title: Daring Bandits: A Bank Robbed in Cool Style
Description: Article about the robbery of the American Bank in Corder, Missouri, in Lafayette County, on August 31, 1891, by two masked men on horses. Description of the same-day capture and expected lynching of one of the robbers, still carrying half of the $664 stolen loot.
Date: 1891-09-01
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Town of Berlin, Missouri: A Lafayette County Ghost Town
Description: An 18 page photocopied typescript which includes bibliographical references.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Manuscript

Title: Chapel Hill, Missouri: A History of the Community and Chapel Hill College
Description: The last 17 pages of this 111 page manuscript contain cemetery listings for the following cemeteries: Chapel Hill, Old Concord, Shore, and Cobb. Also includes includes a list of faculty and students of Chapel Hill College.
Date: 2003
Object Type: Manuscript

Title: Lexington
Description: Article about Lexington, Missouri, in Lafayette County, and its tourist attractions, especially Civil War sites from the Battle of Lexington.
Date: 1975-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named
Description: Third of a series of articles about the origins of place names in Missouri, including Jackson County (containing the cities of Kansas City, Independence, Lee's Summit, and Blue Springs, Missouri), Johnson County (containing the town of Warrensburg, Missouri), Gentry County, Missouri, Holt County, Missouri, Henry County (containing the towns of Clinton and Deepwater, Missouri), Lafayette County (containing the towns of Lexington and Concordia, Missouri), and Livingston County, Missouri (containing the town of Chillicothe, Missouri).
Date: 1917-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: ''Life Is Uncertain...'' Willard Hall Mendenhall's 1862 Civil War Diary
Description: Willard Hall Mendenhall began his diary on January 1, 1862 and maintained it into 1864 writing over 780 entries in four diaries. He lived a short distance from Lexington, Missouri in Layafette County. "Mendenhall's writings provide a revealing account of the ravages of civil war upon the population in west central Missouri. Regardless of allegiances to the Union or the Confederacy, Lafayette Countians and their neighbors faced harrassment, confiscation, looting, burning and killing throughout the traumatic war years." Diary passages were chosen for the article that showed the hardships and sufferings encountered in 1862 by Mendenhall and other Lafayette Countians.
Date: 1984-07-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Marking Missouri History
Description: History of Lexington, Missouri, in Lafayette County on the Missouri River, highlighting its Civil War battle and historic sites, with photo and illustration.
Date: 1998
Object Type: Book

Title: Marie Dierking Herd Neuhaus: Lafayette County German Farmwife and Proto-Feminist
Description: Article tells the story of Marie Dierking Herd Neuhaus, a German immigrant who lived in Concordia, Missouri, in the nineteenth century. Mary was unusual for a woman of her time, particularly a German Lutheran woman, in her vigorous assertion of her right to control her property and protect it for her children.
Date: 2007-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Lafayette County and the Aftermath of Slavery, 1861-1870
Description: In Lafayette County, an area along the Missouri River, was a prosperous hemp-growing region where one in three persons was a slave just before the Civil War. This article explores the fate of these African Americans during and just after the Civil War in this area and particularly around Lexington, Missouri, the county seat.
Date: 1980-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Lafayette County Missouri
Description: Map of Lafayette County, Missouri, including roads, auto roads, railroads, schools, churches, and streams. Includes townships of Clay, Lexington, Dover, Middleton, Sniabar, Washington, Davis, and Freedom. Includes cities of Lexington and Higginsville.
Object Type: Map

Title: Bates City Quadrangle
Description: Topographical map of an area east of Jackson County, in Lafayette County, featuring Sni-A-Bar Creek and Bates City. Roads of various grades are shown, as well as schools, churches, cemeteries. A small area of eastern Jackson County is included.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Map

Title: Camden Quadrangle
Description: Detailed topographical map of an area east of Jackson County on the Missouri River showing the following Ray County towns: Orrick, Albany, Fleming, Camden Junction, Camden. Napoleon and Waterloo are the Lafayette County towns indicated. Also in evidence are Barsher Cemetery, South Point Cemetery, Lewis Cemetery, Cravens Cemetery, Big Lake, Ralph Lake, Tibs Lake, as well as various mine dumps, swamps, creeks, roads, railroad lines, and schools.
Date: 1951
Object Type: Map

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