Georgetown
The Gambia
Georgetown, also called Janjangbure, or Janjanbureh, town, port on MacCarthy Island in the Gambia River in central Gambia. It was founded in 1823 by Captain Alexander Grant as a settlement for freed slaves. Georgetown’s Wesleyan Mission (1823) introduced the peanut (groundnut), a crop still exported downstream on the Gambia River. Georgetown is a collecting centre for swamp rice and peanuts grown by the local Muslim Malinke, Fulani, and Wolof peoples. Pop. (2003 prelim.) 3,466.
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