Cline Town

proper noun

A neighbourhood of Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A neighbourhood of Freetown, Sierra Leone.

    Progress continues along the streets for 2½ miles to Cline Town Station, where the railway works and administrative headquarters are situated.

    1960 April 29, H. P. White, “The Railways of Sierra Leone”, in Railway Magazine, page 234

Origin

Named after Emmanuel Kline, a liberated African.

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Chicago

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