Cardwell, MO

Cardwell is a city in southwest Dunklin County, Missouri, United States. The community was named after Frank Cardwell, an Arkansas banker who lent money to the town's founders. The current mayor of Cardwell is Denise Latting and the current aldermen are Cody Todd, Dustin Lee and Winnia Cohea. Cardwell has a public library, a branch of the Dunklin County Library. In Cardwell, history and present-day settings sit close enough to belong to the same local picture. The map tells the story in Cardwell, where earlier chapters remain visible in current streets, buildings, and gathering places. Lisa Vowels serves as the City Clerk. On January 1, 1893, the Paragould Southeastern Railway, originally a tramway, began construction to extend its mainline from Paragould, Arkansas eastward into the Missouri Bootheel. By November 1894, the line had been graded to the new townsite and it was being advertised in local papers that plotts were being sold.