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5 unusual facts about Kennett


C. John Wilder

A native of Kennett, Missouri, Wilder graduated magna cum laude from Southeast Missouri State University with a bachelor's degree in business administration, and he has received the university’s Alumni Merit Award.

Kennett, California

It was the largest, most important mining town in the area outside of Redding and Shasta.

Kennett was an important mining town in northern California, United States until it was flooded by Shasta Lake while Shasta Dam was being constructed.

Kennett, Cambridgeshire

Listed as Chenet in the Domesday Book of 1086, the village is named after the river Kennett, a tributary of the River Lark.

Shasta Lake

Also beneath the lake is the submerged town of Kennett, defunct tunnels and right of way of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company, parts of which can be seen when the water level is low.


Blackie and Son

Notable books from The Kennett Library, a graded series of classics retold for schools, include: Kidnapped, Little Women, Westward Ho!, The Black Arrow, Wuthering Heights and Ben-Hur.

Bob Kennett

Bob Kennett is the father of New Zealand race car drivers Brady Kennett and George P. Burdell, but Bob raced strictly in the United States.

Buddleja davidii 'Glokosa'

Buddleja davidii 'Glokosa' is an obscure American cultivar, not described in contemporary horticultural literature, but listed in the accessions (no. 19970593) of Longwood Gardens Inc., Kennett, Pennsylvania, source: Carolina Nurseries (ceased trading 2010), Charleston, South Carolina.

Centreville, Delaware

The hamlet of Fairville, Pennsylvania, about three miles north on Kennett Pike (Pennsylvania Route 52) developed about the same time as Centreville, and is also listed on the National Register.

Dunklin County, Missouri

David Nail, country music singer, was born and raised in Kennett.

Sheryl Crow, Grammy-winning singer/songwriter, was born in Kennett and grew up there.

Trent Tomlinson, country music singer/songwriter, was born and raised in Kennett

Healthy, Wealthy and Wise

Notable people associated with the programme included Felicity Kennett, wife of the then Premier of Victoria Jeff Kennett, and Jim Brown, a former Ten Eyewitness news journalist.

KYKY

Sheryl Crow, a native of Kennett, Missouri, and her then-fiancé Lance Armstrong urged viewers to call when they were interviewed by telephone from the region.

Richmond Power Station

In the early 1990s, Victoria's electricity industry was privatised by the Kennett Liberal State Government.

Susan Davies

Davies joined the Australian Labor Party in 1993,as part of the rural protest against Kennett government funding and service cuts, and was the Labor candidate for Gippsland West in the 1996 Victorian state election.

Trent Tomlinson

His father is a former basketball star who set scoring records at the University of Missouri and was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers He was also the basketball coach, biology teacher, and assistant principal at Kennett High School.


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