M R C

Monuments

and Heritage Sites

Western Area.

ST. CHARLES CHURCH

As the Liberated African Villages grew, it was decided that structures had to be established to cater for the spiritual and educational welfare of the emerging communities. The government agreed to finance the construction of schools and churches. In 1816, the government financed the building of a stone church the Regent, one of the Liberated African Villages. St. Charles, named after Charles MacCarthy, was the first stone church to be built in West Africa.

LOCATION:   -  Regent Village, Western Rural.

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DE RUYTER STONE

Proclaimed as a Monument in 1948, De Ruyters Stone is a large syenite boulder in the earth at the King Jimmy Wharf, just below the connaught Hospital water front view facing the estuary of the River Rokel

LOCATION:   - king Jimmy Wharf, just below Connaught Hospital.

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OLD FOURAH BAY COLLEGE

Old Fourah Bay College Building, Freetown Brought to you by the Monuments and Relics Commission This building, known in Sierra Leone as the Old Fourah Bay College Building, was declared as a national monument in 1948. It is located on the Wharf Road leading to the entrance to the Deep Water Quay.

LOCATION:   -  Cline Town, College Road.

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MARTELLO TOWER

Due to frequent attacks on Freetown in the 19th century by the Temne under the leadership of King Tom, the government became nervy about future attacks on the colony. The governor of the day instructed that a Martello Tower be built on the top of Tower Hill as a defence mechanism.

LOCATION:   - Tower Hill

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FORT THORNTON

The fortifications of Smith’s Hill (now known as Tower Hill) were built from 1792 to 1805. Inside the fort were the Governor’s house, Government offices, such as the Post Office and the barracks for the garrison. When the buildings were being re-constructed to make way for the new State House (the present building), the Commission thought it necessary to have the bastions proclaimed a national Monument so as to incorporate them into the new building. Fort Thornton is in very good repair, but much restored from the original, and beautifully laid out with well-

LOCATION:   - Tower Hill

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KING JIMMY STEP

King Jimmy was originally a general market however when the Portuguese arrived, they turned it into a slave market. The area has been neglected for several hundred years and the Gullah Redemption Mission Sierra Leone (GRM-SL) has a project underway to revitalize this historic site

LOCATION:   - 

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MAROON CHURCH

This is one of the oldest places of worship in the City dating from 1820 when the founder received a Crown Grant of the land between Percival and Liverpool Streets with frontage in Westmoreland Street [now Siaka Stevens Street]. The small white building surrounded by a low, white wall standing in its own grounds forms a welcome break in the monotony of Westmoreland Street. It is the only Church that bears the name of one of the original groups who formed this Colony, the Maroons from Jamaica, and it is in the part of Freetown originally allotted to them and called Maroon Town.

LOCATION:   - 

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