When a census was taken in 1843, 138 residents identified their occupations. Forty-seven worked in agriculture, 15 were artisans, four merchants, two professionals, 32 semiskilled, 37 unskilled and one “miscellaneous.”
One hundred and fourteen residents were members of two local churches. Twenty were Baptists and 58 Methodists. By the late 1800s, Caldwell was home to a Presbyterian church. Given mission support from abroad, the Methodist church cast the longest shadow. In 1843, the only local school was operated by Martha Harris with 47 students.
Footnote: U. S., Congress, Senate, U. S. Navy Department, tables showing the number of emigrants and recaptured Africans sent to the colony of Liberia by the government of the United States … together with a census of the colony and a report of its commerce, &c. September, 1843: Senate Document No. 150, 28th Cong., 2n sess., 1845.
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