Like many towns along the St. Paul, Caldwell found the river and its tributaries to be both a blessing and a curse. To address some challenges posed by meandering waters, the legislature approved $750 to “throw up the worst swamps” and to bridge the running streams in Upper Caldwell.
In 1917, S. F. Brown of Virginia was granted the right to run a ferry across the St. Paul River from Virginia, half mile above his wharf and half mile below to the opposite bank of the Caldwell for half mile above and below.
Footnote: Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1883, pp. 20-21; Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1917-18, pp. 42-43.
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