Sinoe County – 'Mississippi-in-Africa' and Greenville (1838)
Sinoe County has long been home to indigenous peoples, and in 1835 more than 300 formerly enslaved African Americans from Prospect Hill Plantation in Mississippi settled here. The colony was first called Mississippi-in-Africa, under the auspices of a chapter of the American Colonization Society.
In 1838 the settlers founded Greenville, named after Judge James Green, who helped the group travel from the Mississippi Delta to Liberia; the town later became a prominent exporter of rubber, lumber and agricultural products. Today Greenville is the county capital. Sinoe is one of Liberia's largest counties by area, but one of the least populated. Do you have a Sinoe story? Share it with the community!