Murray Town is a seaside village bordering Congo Town to the East, Aberdeen and Lumley to the West and Wilberforce to the North. The village boundary extends as far as a small river known as ‘Wan Coppor Wata’ on the boundary with Lumley. The village was named after Mr. George Murray who was the Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1829. Like most villages in Freetown, it was settled by liberated Africans in the early 19th century either with the authority of the colonial governors who had decided to divide the surrounding areas of Freetown into parishes for administrative purposes, or by occupation by the liberated Africans. It was unique in its ethnicity of being overwhelmingly from the Egba tribe of Nigeria whose vernacular is Yoruba. Today, the village is a cosmopolitan place with diverse ethnicities. Murray Town was known for real or imagined stories about serious physical or psychological consequences on anyone who passes through OLOSHORO (a small stream which leads into the heart of the village), with evil or malicious intent on any born and bred resident of the village. These stories have all gone into the realms of Murray Town mythologies.
