Deadwood, Alberta
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Deadwood is a small hamlet in Alberta, Canada, approximately 80 km north of Peace River. It is located 10 km east of Highway 35 on Highway 690, or 34 km southeast of Manning. Apparently it was named for Deadwood, South Dakota. J. Eggenberger, who had the first general store and was the first post master came from there. The original store, post office and community hall were located a few miles west of the present day hamlet. The hamlet consists of a community hall, baseball diamond, post office, small store, and several houses. The post office, store "School Daze" and pool room are all contained within the building that was the Deadwood School. The Deadwood United Church continues as an active preaching point of the Manning-Deadwood Shared Ministry. At one time there was a service station, blacksmith shop and at least one other church. Deadwood had a number of great baseball teams in the 1950's and early 1960's and competed in the Mackenzie Highway Baseball League against a number of other teams in the area.
Annual community events have included
- "Deadwood Days" in the summer with a softball tournament, and sometimes a parade and a very small fair.
- "The Fall Supper" as in many rural communities in North America, is usually held in late October in the community hall.
- "Deadwood Talent Night" in the late fall or winter, held in the community hall, showcasing an eclectic and sometimes astonishing range of talents from the Manning-Deadwood and Dixonville area.
It is the hometown of country singer Carolyn Dawn Johnson.
On Saturday, August 19, 2006 in the evening (with a number of people gathered for the Deadwood Days ball tournament watching) a single-engine Cessna 177 piloted by Manning businessman Nick Gudzinski, 49, crashed less than a kilometre south of the hamlet. The pilot and all three of the teenaged passengers were killed. All were residents of the Manning area some 55 kilometres northwest of Deadwood. One of the passengers was Mr. Gudzinski's son; another was his son's girlfriend, and the remaining was the girlfriend's brother. The cause of the crash is still being investigated.
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