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TLC-Africa - Internet Magazine (639 words) |
 | In 1857 the Republic of Maryland united with The Republic of Liberia and became the County of Maryland. |
| Gbarnga is the largest city in Bong county and it is 204 km north-east of Monrovia. |
| Mount Nimba a is a mile high iron ore mountain and has some of the highest grade iron ore deposits in the world and in the 60's, 70's and 80's, was the first iron ore procedure in Africa. |
| Sinoe County - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (226 words) |
| Sinoe County encompasses an originally autonomous freed-slave colony known as Mississippi in Africa, which was founded prior to Liberia's declaration of independence from the American Colonization Society. |
| Mississippi in Africa was settled by freed slaves from the eponymous American state under the supervision of a subchapter of the ACS known as the Mississippi Colonization Society and was eventually absorbed into the Republic of Liberia. |
| The largest group of immigrants to the Mississippi colony came from Prospect Hill Plantation, also in Jefferson County, in the 1840s, and included more than 300 slaves from that plantation, which was owned by American Revolutionary War veteran Isaac Ross, and from other area plantations owned by members of Ross's family. |
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