Arthington (Liberia)
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| Coordinates | 6 ° 31 ′ N , 10 ° 41 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Liberia | ||
| Montserrado | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | LR-MO | ||
| height | 40 m | ||
| Residents | 650 (2000) | ||
| founding | 1869 | ||
Arthington is a small town in the West African Republic of Liberia . It is located in Montserrado County .
The place Arthington goes back to a generous donation of the English philanthropist Robert Arthington, who, out of sympathy for the work of the American Colonization Society, had made a significant sum available for the construction of a settlement in Liberia.
Located on the Saint Paul River , the town was founded in 1869 by 79 African Americans from Bertie County in the state of North Carolina and had a population of about 650 by the year 2000. The settlers were very successful in growing sugar cane , coffee and ginger . With their products they operated one of the most successful trading companies in Liberia at the end of the 19th century. The fate and dates of the first generation of settlers are known through genealogical research and have been published.
On the edge of the settlement, American geologists and engineers found the construction site for the Mount Coffee Dam in the 1950s . The hydropower plant delivered to the destruction of the civil war the majority of the required electric power for the 25 kilometers to the capital Monrovia .
The 22nd President of Liberia Charles Taylor was born in Arthington on January 28, 1948 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eric Dewayne Jackson: List of Emigrants to Arthington, Liberia . Self-published, 2003, p. 21 . ( Full text ( memento of the original from October 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ( RTF ; 362 kB) as a digital copy “Www.rootsweb.ancestry.com”)
- ^ Carl Patrick Burrowes: Power And Press Freedom In Liberia, 1830-1970: The Impact Of Globalization And Civil Society On Media-government Relations . Africa World Press, Trenton NJ 2004, ISBN 1-59221-293-X , pp. 73–76 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
