Buchanan

The Port Cresson colony was founded in December 1832 by black Quakers from the New York and Pennsylvania colonization societies.

The Indigenous Bassa people destroyed the Americo-Liberian colony of Port Cresson on June 10, 1835, killing 10.

Buchanan is the port for a 155-mile railway that brings iron ore from the mines at Yekepa, Nimba County.

Africa's first iron-ore washing and pelletizing plant was opened in Buchanan in 1968.

Daniel Edward Howard, who served as the 16th President of Liberia, is a notable person from Buchanan.