Heddle's Farm
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National Monument in Sierra Leone 
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| Monument type | monument | ||
| location | Old Leicester Road, Freetown | ||
| Geographic coordinates : | 8 ° 28 '40.4 " N , 13 ° 13' 15.7" W | ||
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| Emergence | 1820 | ||
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Recognized by the Monuments and Relics Commission |
1948 | ||
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| Website | Website | ||
The Heddle's Farm is (or was) a national monument of the African state of Sierra Leone . The historic farmhouse is located on Leicester Road in the capital, Freetown . It is largely destroyed (as of 2007) and only the foundation and the gardens have been preserved.
history
The house, built in 1820, was inhabited by many well-known personalities before it was sold in 1859 to Charles William Maxwell Heddle (1812-1889). Heddle was one of the largest peanut traders in the world at the time . From 1878, after it was sold to the state, the house served as the seat of the governor of Sierra Leone and high-ranking judge. It was last owned by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry . This also campaigned for the maintenance of the gardens around the house. During the 1960s it became part of the Fourah Bay College Botanical Gardens .
literature
- Elizabeth Helen Melville: A Residence at Sierra Leone: Described from a Journal Kept on the Spot and from Letters Written to Friends at Home. Routledge, 2015, ISBN 978-0415760881 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Heddle's Farm. SierraLeoneHeritage.org, 2007. Retrieved June 11, 2014
- ^ Heddle, Charles William Maxwell. Heddle.com. Retrieved June 14, 2017.