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Buchanan| Town and second port of Liberia, lying near the mouth of the St John River; population (2007 est) 27,100. The harbour was built to facilitate export of iron ore from Mount Nimba, 275 km/171 mi inland, which is linked to the port by industrial railway, and the town has the first iron ore washing and pelletizing plant to be built in Africa (1968). The port also exports rubber, palm oil and kernels, and coffee. |
| It was founded in 1835 by black Quakers from Pennsylvania. |
Buchanan| Town in west-central Virginia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, on the upper James River; population (1990 est) 1,200. It is the birthplace (1870) of Mary Johnston, whose novels drew on Virginia's colonial and Civil War history. |
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