We are pleased to share with you the heritage sites in Sierra Leone.
Madam Yoko's Grave, Moyamba
Bunce Island is located twenty miles up-river in the huge Rokel River Estuary, which is the largest natural harbor in Africa and the third largest in the world, after the Sydney and Rio de Janiero Harbors.
Martello Tower
The Martello Tower is located at Tower Hill, just outside the grounds of Parliament Building. It was declared a national monument in 1961, just as Parliament buildings were underway, so that its historic value would be preserved.
Fort Thornton
The structure that used to be Fort Thornton now houses the State House. Originally the residence of the British Governor of the Colony, it was transformed into the offices and residence of the Prime Minister of independent Sierra Leone and later the offices of the President of Sierra Leone.
De Ruyter Stone
Proclaimed as a monument in 1948, the De Ruyter Stone is a large syenite boulder in the earth at the King Jimmy Wharf, just below the Connaught Hospital waterfront view facing the estuary of the River Rokel.
Bunce Island Fortifications
Bunce Island is located twenty miles up-river in the huge Rokel River Estuary, which is the largest natural harbor in Africa and the third largest in the world, after the Sydney and Rio de Janiero Harbors.
Old Fourah Bay College Building
This building, known in Sierra Leone as the Old Fourah Bay College Building, was declared as a national monument in 1948. It is located on the Wharf Road leading to the entrance to the Deep Water Quay.
Gateway to the King’s Yard, Freetown
In his voluminous History of Sierra Leone, Christopher Fyfe recorded thus:
“Just east of it (the new gate built in 1816) above King Jimmy Brook, a stone wall with two gateways (one still stands) enclosed the King’s Yard, where newly-landed recaptives were herded” (p.134)
Old Wharf Steps and Guard House
The Old Wharf Steps leading to the shore of the Rokel Estuary, were declared as a monument in 1953. They are part of the rapid infrastructural improvement to the early Colony that were executed by Governor Charles Macarthy (tenure, 1814-1824).
Zion Methodist Church (Zion on the Hill)
This church originally called the Soldiers Town Chapel grew out of the Soldiers Town meeting place first mentioned in the archives of 1817. The area of Liberated African settlement was called Soldiers Town because it was mainly populated by recaptured Negro Soldiers or the African Corps.
Bai Bureh's Grave. Kasseh
Bai Bureh was born in 1840 in Kasseh, a village near Port Loko in Northern Sierra Leone. His first name, Bai, means Chief in the Temne language. Bureh’s father was an important Loko war-chief and his mother was a Temne trader from Makeni.