Regent (city)
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| Coordinates | 8 ° 20 ′ N , 13 ° 4 ′ W | ||
 Western Area Rural District
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| Country | Sierra Leone | ||
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| District | Western Area Rural | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | SL-W | ||
| Chiefdom | none | ||
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| mayor | John R. Benjamin (2013) | ||
.jpg) Regent (behind it landslide from 2017 )
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Regent ( English Regent (Village) ) is a city in Sierra Leone . It is located in the Western Area Rural district about ten kilometers east of the capital Freetown .
Mayor since June 29, 2013 is John R. Benjamin.
history
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Regent was founded in 1812 by Christian missionaries from the Christian Missionariy Society . The place served freed slaves from Nova Scotia in what is now Canada as the first point of contact after arriving in Sierra Leone. Regent got his name from Charles MacCarthy (1764-1824). Previously it was known under the name Hog Brook ( German for pigs brook ).
Storm 2017
On August 14, 2017, after rains, there was a landslide that killed at least 1,100 people.
population
The place is mainly inhabited by Krios , Mende , Temne and Loko .
When it was founded in 1812, there were already more than 2000 freed slaves living in Regent.
Infrastructure
Regent has had an asphalt road connection to Freetown since the beginning of 2014.
With the Sanu Memorial School from 1912, Sierra Leone's first school is located in Regent. It was founded by John Randal .
Regent has a health facility with the Regent Community Health Center . With the St. Charles' Church is the oldest church in the country and the third oldest church building in Africa in Regent. This and the surrounding Kings Yard are a National Monument .
sons and daughters of the town
- Solomon Pratt - writer
Web links
- Information and images to the site (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ PRESS STATEMENT ON THE DECLARATION OF RESULTS FOR WESTERN AREA RURAL DISTRICT VILLAGE HEAD ELECTIONS HELD ON SATURDAY 29TH JUNE 2013. National Electoral Commission, June 29, 2013. Retrieved June 14, 2014
- ↑ a b c d Regent, Sierra Leone. on EcoSalone.com ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on June 14, 2014
- ^ In Sierra Leone, Regent-Grafton Road is “One in a Million” Mountain residents confirm. Awareness Times, February 20, 2014 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on June 14, 2014
