Clay Today will test your knowledge weekly and provide interesting facts on various topics. This week, Clay County. We all call Clay County home, but how much do we know about our home? Sure, most of us know it got its name from American statesman and former Secretary of State and House Speaker Henry Clay, but did you know Middleburg Methodist Church is 202 years old and is the oldest Protestant Church building in continuous use in Florida? Guess which Clay-based musician or band has sold the most records? Everyone knows Lynyrd Skynyrd cut its teeth at Hell House in Green Cove Springs. The band wrote their first three records in the woods on Peters Creek, including iconic hits like “Free Bird,” “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Gimme Three Steps,” and “Simple Man.” But their numbers don’t come close to the county’s top-selling crooner, Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr. You may know him better as Slim Whitman, the yodeling country musician who sold 120 million records. Skynyrd sold more than 28 million records. By the way, Whitman’s buried at the Middleburg Methodist Church. And if you haven’t noticed, when driving on State Road 16 from Green Cove Springs toward the Shands Bridge, that orange and rusty tank on the shore of the St. Johns River is a real fuel tank from the Space Shuttle Program. It was supposed to go to the Wings of Dreams Aviation Museum in Keystone Heights, but it was too big to make the trip. So that’s as far as it got.