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7 unusual facts about Cardwell


Brother Phelps

They were raised in the Missouri Bootheel and Doug graduated from a small school named Southland located in Cardwell, Missouri.

Cardwell, Missouri

The Kentucky Headhunters filmed part of the music video "Oh Lonesome Me" in Cardwell, Missouri.

The Missouri Bootheel is the home place of 2 members of The Kentucky Headhunters, Doug and Ricky Phelps.

Hinchinbrook Island National Park

Cardwell is two hours drive north of Townsville being the closest North Queensland provincial city.

Jefferson River

The upper Jefferson extends from the confluence of the Big Hole and the Beaverhead rivers approximately 44 miles downstream to the community of Cardwell.

Lady Elliot

The Lady Elliot was a ship that was wrecked north of Cardwell, Queensland, Australia in 1816.

South Essex Regiment

In the latter case it would have become the Essex Regiment under the Cardwell Reforms and the battalion carrying its traditions would have been disbanded and the honours continued.


Ambrose Askin

After the end of World War II, Ambrose Askin became a fish fryer in Knottingley, living at 4 Cardwell Terrace, Foundry Lane, Knottingley.

AmCham Finland

Natasha Seeley, AmCham's first Managing Director, Heikki Jaatinen of Hannes Snellman, Will Cardwell, today of AaltoES, Mark Sutton of 3M, and Teppo Rantanen of Deloitte gathered at the US Embassy on the invitation of Commercial Counselor Robert Peaslee to draft a charter for a new organization.

Cardwell Bush Telegraph

A message can be sent by Morse code and an interactive display demonstrates Cardwell's role in the telegraph line race between Queensland and South Australia.

Michael Martin Clancy

He rode the 90 mile track to Cardwell through crocodile infested waters and over mountain ranges bare back.

Truslove and Hanson

Other notable publications include Henry Ling Roth's, The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo (1896) and Oriental Silverwork (1910); John Henry Cardwell's, Men and Women of Soho: Famous and Infamous (1904); and Joseph Shaylor's The Pleasures of Bookland (1914).


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