Brewerville was founded in 1870 along a trade route “which is said to have been traveled for centuries and which reaches to the Niger.” The town sits on elevated land, about two miles back from the St. Paul’s River and three miles below Virginia. Within a year, a “substantial” church had been erected. A decade later, the government had granted over a hundred acres for a female school.
Brewerville was built on previously unoccupied land, located a few minutes walk from a Muslim town called Vonswah. According to Edward W. Blyden, when he passed through the area in 1869, the “whole region was covered with heavy forest.”
Footnote: “Brewerville and the St. Paul’s River,” African Repository, July 1879, p. 55; “From Liberia,” African Repository, August 1870, p. 46.
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