The town was named in honor of Charles Brewer, who gave $7,500 to the American Colonization Society to relocate repatriates from the United States to the site where the town was built.
In addition to the footpath to Bopolu, the Po river provided another means of communication with wealthier towns further up the St. Paul’s River.
Footnote: ACS Sixty-Ninth Annual Report, 1887, p. 7; ACS Seventy-Second Annual Report, 1890, p. 4; Cassell, 1970, pp. 281, 284, 313, 322; Burrowes, Power and Press Freedom, pp. ??; “From Liberia,” African Repository, August 1870, p. 46; “Pennsylvania Colonization Society,” African Repository, Jan. 1869, p. 45.
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