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We would like to provide the residents of  Cantwell  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Cantwell Home page. The Cantwell Home page provides as much information as possible on Cantwell. Knowing Cantwell’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Cantwell’s Home page, you will also find Cantwell’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Cantwell has a population of 210. 70% of Cantwell’s inhabitants are Male, and 30 are female. 22.3% of Cantwell is married and 86.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $181,375. Household median income in Cantwell is $30,500, and the individual median income is $21,447. Cantwell’s Ethnic is the following: White(73.8%), Multiple(20.5%), Native(3.3%), Black(2.4%).


Cantwell is named after Lieutenant J. C. Cantwell, military explorer and commander of the revenue steamer Corwin on the Yukon River, 1898-1900. Prior to the settlement, the only inhabitants of the Cantwell area were nomadic Tanana Indians and Athabascan Native Alaskans who hunted and fished. In their language they named Cantwell Yede'teni'na.


The town began as a flag stop on the Alaska Railroad. This flagstop supplied the Valdez Creek mining area, which had the name "Denali" for the Valdez Creek community. Many Indians from the village of Tyone came to work at Valdez Creek and later lived out their lives in the Cantwell area. Many Tyones are buried in the old Cantwell graveyard, next to the railroad tracks.


Oley Nicklie, a Native Alaskan, sought work with the railroad after fur prices dropped. He and his two brothers then founded part of the settlement. Cantwell is 20 miles away from a giant abandoned igloo shaped hotel, which is not made out of ice.Cantwell served as a partial filming location for the Lure of the Yukon during the 1920s, and for the 2007 movie Into the Wild.


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