Edina (Liberia)

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Edina
Edina (Liberia)
Edina
Edina
Coordinates 5 ° 55 ′  N , 10 ° 5 ′  W Coordinates: 5 ° 55 ′  N , 10 ° 5 ′  W
Basic data
Country Liberia

region

Grand Bassa
ISO 3166-2 LR-GB
height 5 m
Residents 350 (2008)
founding 1832
Website edinacity.com (English)
politics
mayor Edweda A. Cooper

Edina is a city in the West African Republic of Liberia . The small town in Grand Bassa County has 350 inhabitants and is located at the mouth of the Saint John River .

history

After Monrovia, the city ​​of Edina was the second founding of the American Colonization Society (ACS) on the West African coast. The city is named after the Scottish capital Edinburgh , as the founding of the city was made possible in 1832 with financial support from Edinburgh philanthropists . The coastal area is part of the main settlement area of ​​the Bassa, in the first half of the 19th century the King Kadasie , who ruled over almost 6,000 warriors, ruled here . The king was another patron of the ACS colonists, but other kings disagreed with the alien intrusion and disruption of their slave trade . In June 1835, the neighboring colony of Port Cresson was attacked by insurgents and wiped out.

A new group of Quakers , emigrants from Pennsylvania , dared to establish another colony at this point, which they named Bassa Cove . When these settlers were again the target of raids, they all decided to join the main colony of Liberia on April 1, 1839. Joseph James Cheeseman was born in the city of Edina in 1843 and was the 11th Liberian President (1892 to 1896).

Cityscape

View of the first mission station in Edina (1840)

The city of Edina is picturesquely situated on the golden-yellow sand beach of the Atlantic . The small United Methodist Church is a late 19th-century building with a memorial to President Cheesman and a monument to Bassa King Bob Gray . Another sight is a bulky, rusted safe - it was salvaged from the foundations of the former governor's house.

Infrastructure

The infrastructure built up in the 1970s was largely destroyed during the Liberian civil war. Edina was supported by the proximity of the port city of Buchanan , only six kilometers away , the local ore loading port, the power station and the capital of a Swedish-American mining company with a modern clinic, shopping center and field airfield. Today's local government has managed to rebuild the city with the support of the government and international aid organizations, and its own website proudly presents the scenic beauties to potential tourists.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Syrulwa Somah: The Role of the Bassa in Liberia reshaping. (No longer available online.) May 28, 2004, archived from the original on October 18, 2011 ; accessed on February 1, 2011 (English).