New Liberty was originally laid out as Adams Town in 1815, and was named after a local man named Reuben Adams.  Adams started a post office in 1816, but named it Twin Meeting House, after the Baptist Church at Twin Creek.   By 1823 the name had changed to New Liberty – no one’s real clear on why – and the town was incorporated in 1827. - From Robert Rennick’s Kentucky Bluegrass: A Survey of the Post Offices, Vol. II. 

"On Friday night October 14.  About 7 o'clock at New Liberty, Ky., we had the most sublime display of Aurora Borealis ever witnessed.  The lurid streaks of light flashed up from the horizon in the east and north, some red as fire, and shedding a glare of light nearly equal to moonlight, and extending halfway from the horizon to the zenith."  from the Owen News, quoted in the Carrollton Democrat, October 29, 1870

"The new flouring mill at Wheatley threw open its doors last week and amidst the whirr of wheels and burrs turned out its first pure white flour to many waiting patrons.  The people of this neighborhood have long wanted a convenience of this kind.  The mill has proven a success in the kind of flour produced, and has been attested by many good housewives in that section.  The plant is owned by Messrs. William and Henry J. McNeal and William Baker." from the Owenton News-Herald, November 28, 1907

"New Liberty's Mr. J. B. Hartsaugh has started a opossum ranch."     - Owen County Democrat, November 19, 1886