Barclayville

Region

The city Barclayville is the capital and administrative center of the Grand Kru County in southeastern Liberia. The city is located on the lower reaches of the Grand Cess River, about 10 kilometers north of the Atlantic coast. The population of the city was Barclayville 2733 inhabitants at the reporting date (2008).

History

The place name Barclayville reminiscent of the Liberian President Edwin Barclay. As recently as the 1920s, the region was the scene of bitter fighting. The initially transmitted only within the indigenous populations of the Grebo and Kru conflicts for supremacy in the lucrative coastal trade were as Kru Wars ( German: Kru Wars ) known. In the early 1930s broke out the last uprisings of the Kruküste, try this in turn was put down with great brutality by the government troops failed because of the ongoing investigations related to the Fernando Po scandal. It succeeded the new President Barclay to resolve this decades-long dispute over ownership of land and fishing rights, he led the merger of four villages of warring clans and transformed it into the provincial town Barclayville. The now controlled by Amerikoliberianern population presented for the resulting in the hinterland rubber plantations a rich labor force represents the final pacification, however, should not succeed until 1945. The region is only used agricultural and forestry also in the present, there are on the lower reaches of the Grand River Cess some palm oil plantations.

A modern road network is practically non-existent. With support from USAID, the George W. Bush Bridge was built in Barclayville first modern bridge. For newly created infrastructure includes also the administrative center, a school and a health center. Barclayville also since the 1940s has an airfield.

Swell

• Location in Liberia
• Grand Kru County
• Place in Africa