Grafton is a coastal town close to the

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, in the Western Area Rural District of

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. Grafton is a

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center and lies about twenty miles on the main

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Freetown Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone. It is a major port city on the Atlantic Ocean and is located in the Western Area of the country. Freetown is Sierra Leone's major urban, economic, financial, cultural, educational and p ...

. Grafton is a principle home of the Creole ethnic group, and the Creole people are by far the largest

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of Grafton. The Krio language is the primary language of communication and the most widely spoken language in Grafton. Although part of the larger Western Area Rural District Council, Grafton has its own locally

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, headed by a Town Head. The current Town Head of Grafton is Ekundayo Conteh
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*http://news.sl/drwebsite/exec/view.cgi?archive=7&num=19419 {{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234101/http://news.sl/drwebsite/exec/view.cgi?archive=7&num=19419 , date=2016-03-03 *https://web.archive.org/web/20121026113630/http://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/48992 *https://web.archive.org/web/20111224220109/http://victory.vwcblogs.com/archives/3637 *http://www.irinnews.org/Report/78853/SIERRA-LEONE-Sex-crimes-continue-in-peacetime Populated places in Sierra Leone Western Area Sierra Leone Liberated African villages Populated places established by Sierra Leone Creoles