Barclayville

Barclayville
Coordinates	4 ° 41 ′  N , 8 ° 14 ′  W Coordinates: 4 ° 41 ′  N , 8 ° 14 ′  W
Basic data
Country	Liberia
region	Grand Kru
height	20 m
Residents	2733 (2008)
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Barclayville is the capital and administrative center of Grand Kru County in southeast Liberia . The city is located on the lower reaches of the Grand Cess River , about 10 kilometers north of the Atlantic coast. The population of the city of Barclayville was 2733 on the reference date (2008).

history

The place name Barclayville is reminiscent of the Liberian President Edwin Barclay . The region was the scene of bitter fighting as recently as the 1920s. The conflicts over dominance in the lucrative coastal trade, initially only fought within the indigenous population groups of the Grebo and Kru , became known as Kru Wars (German: Kru wars). At the beginning of the 1930s, the last uprisings broke out on the Kru coast, but the attempt by the government troops to suppress them with great brutality was neglected due to the ongoing investigations into the Fernando Po scandal . The new President Barclay succeeded in settling this decade-long dispute over ownership of land and fishing rights, he arranged the amalgamation of four villages of the warring clans and created the provincial town of Barclayville. The population now controlled by American Liberians represented a rich workforce for the rubber plantations that were being built in the hinterland . However, the final pacification was not to be achieved until 1945.
Even today, the region is only used for agriculture and forestry, there are some palm oil plantations on the lower reaches of the Grand Cess River .

A modern road network is practically non-existent. With the support of USAID , the George W. Bush Bridge was built as the first modern bridge near Barclayville . The newly created infrastructure also includes the administrative center, a school and a health center. Barclayville has also had a field airfield since the 1940s.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Final results of the 2008 census, NPHC 2008 Report Final. (PDF; 676 kB) In: Liberian Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information-Systems (LISGIS). Retrieved October 11, 2010 . 
2. ↑ TRC Final Report: Volume II. (PDF; 3.1 MB) TRC, July 2009, p. 384 , archived from the original on October 31, 2010 ; accessed on January 31, 2011 (English). 
3. ^ Grand Kru County Development Agenda. (PDF; 2.9 MB) Gouvernement of Liberia, 2008, p. 76 , accessed on January 31, 2011 (English, the cover picture shows the bridge shortly after its completion).