2023 Freetown DAT Report - Flipbook - Page 37
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Legend - Freetown Downtown Heritage Trail
1. Ferry Landing Government Wharf
A. Freetown Council (public toilets)
2. Proposed Cable Car Station and
Welcome Center
B. Connaught Hospital
3. Proposed Freetown Museum
4. Old Wharf Steps
C. Maroon Town Historic District
D. The Cotton Tree
E. State House
5. Market Street below Wallace Johnson
Street
F. Freetown Amusement Park
6. Big Market
G. Supreme Court
7. King Jimmy Market
H. Treasury Building
8. Gateway to the King’s Wharf
I. Regional Bus Station
9. St. John’s Maroon Church
a. Overlook steps at the head of
Gloucester Street (monuments to Isaac
Wallace Johnson, Edward Wilmot
Blyden & Thomas Peters)
10. New Zion Church
11. National Museum (public toilets)
b. 5-minute walking radius
12. Taylor Cummings Garden - Peace &
Culture Monument
13. Wesley Methodist Church
14. St. George’s Cathedral (open to the
public)
c. 10-minute walking radius
d. central transportation point
w. examples of board houses found
throughout Historic Maroon Town
15. Central Mosque
16. Future Ferry to Bunce Island
The heritage trail will build community pride and attract Diaspora and tourists to Freetown. It can also help set the priorities for pedestrian travel
improvements.
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