Totota

Totota
The owner and founder of Totota was call chief Moses Toto, which was name after him.
Totota

Location in Liberia

Coordinates: 6°49′N 9°55′W / 6.817°N 9.917°W / 6.817; -9.917
Country Liberia
County Bong County

Totota is a small town in Bong County, Liberia with a population between 5,000 and 8,000 depending upon the season. The main paved road from Monrovia to Gbarnga passes through Totota keeping Totota alive with activity day and night. Totota has several high schools, notably E.J. Yancy, the Lutheran literacy training program, orphanages and clinics that serve the surrounding area. Wednesday is market day in Totota.

President William V. S. Tubman, who served for in that capacity for 27 years, established his presidential rubber farming retreat in a Totota, with the rubber farms of Lafayette Morgan, former economic adviser to the President, and Richard Henries, the longest serving Speaker of the House of Representatives of Liberia, located adjacent. Jimmy Barolle, longtime butler to President Tubman has a 400 acre rubber farm nearby and Mrs. Antoinette Tubman, wife of the former President, boasts her own large oil palm estate near the town. A hotel and restaurant resort with an attached zoo, Coocoo's Nest, named for their daughter, Latoyatota.

Coordinates: 6°49′02″N 9°55′54″W / 6.817353°N 9.931641°W / 6.817353; -9.931641


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