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Stories from Campbell Town

  • An Eye for an Eye

    The first known white inhabitant of Campbell Town was the unlucky Thomas Kenton. He was apparently a sailor who left his ship and ended up in the town in 1821. A sketch of his very basic dwelling drawn by one of the first surveyors who passed through ...

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  • Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines

    Harold Gatty Memorial, Campbell Town

    For eight days in 1931 the world was glued to its radio sets following the exploits of a native American Indian, Wiley Post, and a young man from Campbell Town ...

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  • The King of Iceland

    Jorgen Jorgenson

    One of the Heritage Highway's most colourful characters was the self-proclaimed King of Iceland who ended up as a convict constable in the field police at Oatlands ...

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