<p>The framework of a maritime cultural landscape (MCL) has long been used and expanded as a holistic tool to understand how people have utilized, interpreted, and constructed their maritime environments through five components: natural havens, shipwrecks, land remains, traditions of use, and place names. This article constructs and analyzes the MCL of Liberia, West Africa, which is a nation historically connected to the coast and to maritime mobility, shipping, and transport. While an early entrant to Atlantic trade, Liberia was the only area of West Africa not to be colonized by Europeans in the nineteenth century. Rather, it was settled in 1822 by free Black emigrants as part of the Back to Africa Movement. During the nineteenth century, Liberia’s economy was dependent on maritime trade, and the settlers and Liberia’s Indigenous people sustained extensive trade networks both along the coast and across the Atlantic that competed with outside, foreign companies. As a result of this maritime engagement, Liberia maintained a high degree of economic and political sovereignty. The known components of Liberia’s MCL suggest potential for future research into unknown aspects of the country’s maritime past.</p>