Jamestown/Usshertown, Accra

Jamestown/Usshertown Districts
(Old Accra)
LocationJamestown
Roughly:
W: Korle Lagoon
E: Kwame Nkrumah Avenue
N: Accra Railway Station
S: Gulf of Guinea

Usshertown
Roughly:
W: Kwame Nkrumah Avenue
N: Kinbu Road
E: Kojo Thompson Road
S: Gulf of Guinea
Governing bodyAccra Metropolitan Assembly

Located directly east of the Korle Lagoon, Jamestown and Usshertown are the oldest districts of Accra, Ghana[1] and emerged as communities around the 17th century British James Fort and Dutch Ussher Fort on the Gulf of Guinea coast.[2][3] These districts were developed at the end of the 19th century, and following the rapid growth of the city during the 20th century, they became areas of a dense mixture of commercial and residential use.

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  2. ^ "Jamestown". www.macalester.edu. Archived from the original on 2021-02-26. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
  3. ^ Online, Peace FM. "Walking You Through Accra's Beautiful Attractions". Peacefmonline - Ghana news. Retrieved 2022-02-01.