Clay-Ashland is a township located 10 miles (16 km) from the capital city of Monrovia in Liberia.

[2] It is named after Henry Clay — a slaveowner and American Colonization Society co-founder who favored gradual emancipation — and his estate Ashland in Lexington, Kentucky.

A Kentucky state affiliate of the ACS was formed in 1828, and members raised money to transport Kentucky blacks — freeborn volunteers as well as slaves set free on the stipulation that they leave the United States — to Africa.

[3] Notable residents have included William D. Coleman, the 13th President of Liberia, whose family settled in Clay-Ashland after immigrating from Fayette County, Kentucky, United States when he was a boy.

The True Whig Party, which dominated Liberian politics for more than a century, was founded in Clay-Ashland in 1869.