This year, Clayton turns 100. Authors Mary Delach Leonard and Melinda Leonard have marked the occasion with a new coffee-table book, Clayton, Missouri: An Urban Story, featuring an impressive array of anecdotes, facts, and photos from the city’s history.
100 Acres that Ralph Clayton donated in 1878 to establish the county seat
$1 Price that resident Charles Fiedler paid for a dog license in 1913, the city’s first official revenue after its incorporation
$2.7 billion: Current estimated value of Clayton’s real estate
$120 Annual salary of William F. Broadhead, the city’s first mayor, in 1914. He died the following year on a fishing trip
2 Number of poets laureate (Howard Nemerov and Mona Van Duyn) from the faculty at Washington University
10 Weight in tons of the iconic globe sculpture that sits in Clayton High School’s new Centene Centennial Plaza
