Brewerville’s founder was John B. Munden who was later joined by a group of 75 under the leadership of Ben Newberry. Among the most successful local farmers were Bissell, Banks, William Hayes, Batese and Lucas. Nine years after the town’s founding, a visitor wrote that residents “seemed cheerful, happy, industrious and hopeful.”
In 1874, the town had one public school conducted by a teacher, who was paid $140. By 1881 the town was the site of the AME Mount Carmel Bethel Church and a Presbyterian church.
Footnote: “Brewerville and the St. Paul’s River,” African Repository, July 1879, p. 55; “Government schools in Montserrado County, African Repository, July 1874, p. 220; 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. ??.
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