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Title
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Lexington
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Description
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Article about Lexington, Missouri, in Lafayette County, and its tourist attractions, especially Civil War sites from the Battle of Lexington.
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Date
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1975-08
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named
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Description
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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).
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Date
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1917-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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''Life Is Uncertain...'' Willard Hall Mendenhall's 1862 Civil War Diary
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1984-07-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Marie Dierking Herd Neuhaus: Lafayette County German Farmwife and Proto-Feminist
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2007-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
