Barclayville:
Barclayville, the capital and most populous settlement in Grand Kru County is located in southeastern Liberia about 10 miles inland from Picinicess. The Barclayville township of several thousand people straddles the banks of the Na River. Roads from Kanweaken to the northwest, Pleebo to the southeast, and to Picinicess and Grand Cess to the southeast, all intersect at Barclayville.
The regional high school is in Barclayville along with several public and private (Christian) schools for grades K-8. Many religious denominations have churches and/or missions in Barclayville including Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, and a variety of evangelical congregations, though most of the population also follows local animist practices. Prior to the Liberian Civil War much of the male adult population were on government payroll employed as teachers, employees of the courts, or serving as government officials or their staff.
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