Edina sits across the Saint John River from Buchanan, reached by a short ferry or road bridge. Founded in 1832 by the Mississippi Colonization Society as a settlement for freed American slaves, it is one of the oldest Americo-Liberian towns in the country and predates Buchanan itself.
A handful of nineteenth-century wooden houses still stand — wide verandas, raised foundations, pitched tin roofs, the architecture the settlers brought from the American South. Most are in various states of disrepair, but a slow wander gives a real sense of how the early settler towns looked. The town has its own quiet beach and is a working fishing community, with Bassa-speaking residents mostly making a living from the sea.