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Adawso is a farming community in the Akuapem North Municipal District in the Eastern Region of Ghana. It is located along the
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highway.


Infrastructure

* Adawso Bridge over
Afram River The Afram River is a river in Ghana. Prior to the construction of the Akosombo Dam in the 1960s, the Afram is a principal tributary of the Volta River The Volta River is the main river system in the West African country of Ghana. It flows s ...
* Adawso Chief Palace * Adawso Fire Service Station


Notable residents

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Nathan Quao Nathan Anang Quao, (21 November 1915 – 15 February 2005) was a Ghanaian civil servant, educationist and diplomat who became a senior presidential advisor to the administrations of multiple Heads of State of Ghana. His last roles in governme ...
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Charles Odamtten Easmon Charles Odamtten Easmon or C. O. Easmon, popularly known as Charlie Easmon, (22 September 1913 – 19 May 1994) was a medical doctor and academic who became the first Ghanaian to formally qualify as a surgeon specialist and the first Dean of t ...
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Nicholas Timothy Clerk Nicholas Timothy Clerk (28 October 1862 – 16 August 1961) was a Protestant theologian, clergyman and pioneering missionary of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society in southeast colonial Ghana. His father was the Jamaican Moravian mission ...
* Jane Elizabeth Clerk * Lawrence Henry Yaw Ofosu-Appiah * Matilda Johanna Clerk *
Ernest Papa Arko Ernest Papa Arko (born 12 May 1984) is a Ghanaian football striker who currently plays for the Ghana Premier League side Liberty Professionals. Career Arko used to play for Ocean Stars in Medina and was spotted by Sly Tetteh. He moved to play ...
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Nicholas Timothy Clerk Nicholas Timothy Clerk (28 October 1862 – 16 August 1961) was a Protestant theologian, clergyman and pioneering missionary of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society in southeast colonial Ghana. His father was the Jamaican Moravian mission ...
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Carl Henry Clerk Carl Henry Clerk (4 January 1895 – 28 May 1982) was a Ghanaian agricultural educationist, administrator, journalist, editor and church minister who was elected the fourth Synod Clerk of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast, assuming t ...
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Peter Hall (minister) Peter Hall (17 May 1851 – 1937) was a Gold Coast-born Jamaican teacher, missionary and Presbyterian clergyman who was elected the first Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast, equivalent to the rank of chairperson of the ...
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Charles Sterling Acolatse Charles Acolatse Sterling was a Ghanaian lawyer and jurist. He was a barrister-at-law and later justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana. Early life and education Charles was born on 27 June 1899 to Chief Joachim Acolatse of Keta in British Togola ...


References

{{Reflist Eastern Region (Ghana) Communities in Ghana