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Harper was the capital of the Republic of Maryland, an independent country (1834–1857), the last component of modern Liberia.. Cape Palmas, the region of which Harper is the center, is one of the traditional hometowns of the Americo-Liberians, descendants of free people of color and freed slaves from the United States who settled in Liberia and declared it an independent country in 1847.
Maryland County is a county in the southeastern portion of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has two districts . Harper serves as the capital with the area of the county measuring 887 square miles (2,300 km 2 ). [ 2 ]
The Maryland ritual killings were a series of ritualistic murders that occurred around Harper, Maryland County, Liberia in the 1970s. The crimes have been regarded as "Liberia's most notorious ritual killing case" due to the number of murders, the involvement of high ranking government officials and their subsequent public executions. [1]
On May 29, 1854, the State of Maryland declared its independence, naming itself Maryland in Liberia, [6] with its capital at Harper. It was also known as the Republic of Maryland. It was also known as the Republic of Maryland.
The city of Harper, Liberia (established 1835 by the Maryland State Colonization Society) extends to the northeast inland along the estuary of the Hoffman, providing a small harbor; the Hoffman Station settlement is on the right bank. The name Cape Palmas is generalized to indicate the entire surrounding region of Maryland County.
Maryland County 8 Lofa: Voinjama: 367,376 3,854 sq mi (9,980 km 2) 6 1964 Lofa County [d] 9 Margibi: Kakata: 304,946 1,010 sq mi (2,600 km 2) 4 1985 Montserrado County 10 Maryland: Harper: 172,202 886 sq mi (2,290 km 2) 2 1857 Maryland County [b] 11 Montserrado: Bensonville: 1,920,914 737 sq mi (1,910 km 2) 17 1839 Montserrado County [b] 12 ...
William V. S. Tubman University, commonly known as Tubman University, is a public university located in Harper, Maryland County, Liberia. The university is named after William Tubman, the 19th President of Liberia.
[1] [2] [3] He was elected president of the Liberia College in 1913 and served as associate justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia for 10 years, before being elevated to the position of Chief Justice for 13 years. [1] [3] [2] The J. J. Dossen Memorial Hospital in Harper, Maryland County, one of the hospitals in south-eastern Liberia, is named ...