Totota
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Totota is a small town in Bong County
, Liberia
with a population between 5,000 and 8,000 depending upon the season. The main paved road from Monrovia to Gbarnga passes through Totota keeping Totota alive with activity day and night. Totota has several high schools, orphanages and clinics that serve the surrounding area. Wednesday is market day in Totota.
President William V. S. Tubman, who served for in that capacity for 27 years, established his presidential rubber farming retreat in Totota, with the rubber farms of Lafayette Morgan, former economic adviser to the President, and Richard Henries, the longest serving Speaker of the House of Representatives of Liberia, located adjacent. Jimmy Barolle, longtime butler to President Tubman has a 400 acre rubber farm nearby and Mrs. Antoinette Tubman, wife of the former President, boasts her own large oil palm estate near the town. A hotel and restaurant resort with an attached zoo, Coocoo's Nest, named for their daughter, is also located in Totota.
Bong County
Bong is a county in the north-central portion of the West African nation of Liberia. One of 15 counties that comprise the first-level of administrative division in the nation, it has twelve districts. Gbarnga serves as the capital with the area of the county measuring...
, Liberia
Liberia
Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and Côte d'Ivoire on the east. Liberia's coastline is composed of mostly mangrove forests while the more sparsely populated inland consists of forests that open...
with a population between 5,000 and 8,000 depending upon the season. The main paved road from Monrovia to Gbarnga passes through Totota keeping Totota alive with activity day and night. Totota has several high schools, orphanages and clinics that serve the surrounding area. Wednesday is market day in Totota.
President William V. S. Tubman, who served for in that capacity for 27 years, established his presidential rubber farming retreat in Totota, with the rubber farms of Lafayette Morgan, former economic adviser to the President, and Richard Henries, the longest serving Speaker of the House of Representatives of Liberia, located adjacent. Jimmy Barolle, longtime butler to President Tubman has a 400 acre rubber farm nearby and Mrs. Antoinette Tubman, wife of the former President, boasts her own large oil palm estate near the town. A hotel and restaurant resort with an attached zoo, Coocoo's Nest, named for their daughter, is also located in Totota.