New Georgia, Liberia

In July 1827 a ship named Norfolk carried 131,[2] 143[3] or 144[4] Africans to Liberia from the United States, of whom 78 were adult women and another eleven or twelve were under ten years of age.

[5] One hundred twenty of those people had been found on the slave ship Antelope when it was seized off the coast of Florida in 1820.

[10] In March 1830 92 African men who had survived the 1827 wreck of the slave ship Guerrero near Key Largo, Florida were brought to Liberia from the United States and settled at New Georgia.

The "recaptured" Africans at New Georgia had inter-married between the groups and many of the men married women from local tribes.

The new bridge would replace one that was built in 1992 for military purposes by peacekeepers from the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group.