Old City Boundary Guns- Travel Tips

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The Old City Boundary Guns in Freetown, Sierra Leone, were likely repurposed from a condemned slave ship and placed vertically to mark the limits of the early settlement. Only one of the original three cannons remains visible today, positioned at the intersection of Kissy Road, Ross Road, and Blackhall Road—an area locally known as "Up Gun." Erected around 1800, it initially helped divide road sections for cleaning. The other two cannons, once located on Leicester Road and at the junction of Pademba Road and Jomo Kenyatta Road, have since disappeared. These relics offer a tangible link to Freetown's colonial-era urban planning.