Cardwell Historical Society

Member of the Cardwell Historical Society were in fine form for the first events to celebrate the town's 150th birthday.  Some three hundred people gathered at the Bush Telegraph historic precinct for a traditional welcome with billy-tea and damper to mark the anniversary of the arrival of the Dalrymple expedition to start a new settlement in 1864 and to listen to a number of speakers looking back on the history of Cardwell.  Members of the Society wearing period costume then unveiled a large quilt commemorating this anniversary which was made by the Seaside Quilter Ladies.  The next big public event will be a tree-planting in which one hundred and fifty Flame trees will be planted along Bowen Street.  One to mark each of the years of settlement of the town.