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Heritage trail

These places connect directly to the people and events in Story of Salone. Visitors should check access, opening hours and local permissions before travelling, especially for shrines and sites still in community use.

Freetown and the peninsula

  • Cotton Tree site and Sierra Leone Museum

    Founding of Freetown; museum opened in December 1957 with M.C.F. Easmon as first curator

    Sources 12, 13, 121, 148

    See it: Sierra Leone National MuseumShow on map

  • Settler Town

    First home of the Nova Scotian settlers and Thomas Peters

    Sources 11, 52

  • Pademba Road

    Near the site of Pa Demba's village, which sheltered settlers in 1794

    Sources 115

  • Malamah House, East Street

    Built by merchant and mayor John Henry Malamah Thomas; described as still standing in 1988; a private family house, seen from the street

    Sources 116

  • Bai Bureh and Wallace-Johnson statues

    The 1898 rising; the labour and nationalist movement

    Sources 31, 56

  • Fourah Bay College, Mount Aureol

    Alma mater of Crowther, Horton, Margai and many others

    Sources 19, 20

  • Sierra Leone Grammar School and Annie Walsh

    Pioneering secondary schools for boys and girls

    Sources 23, 24

  • Murray Town

    Site of the barracks where Emmanuel Cole led the 1939 gunners' protest; a military area, seen from outside

    Sources 56

  • Lumley Beach and the Bintumani

    Heart of the 1970s–1980s holiday trade; 1980 OAU summit

    Sources 133, 135, 136

    See it: Lumley BeachShow on map

  • Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary

    Rescued chimpanzees in the peninsula forest

    Sources 144

    See it: Tacugama Chimpanzee SanctuaryShow on map

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