Swiftwater, Mississippi | |
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 Cotton fields at Swiftwater, c. 1885-1898. Photo by
William Henry Jackson. | |
  Swiftwater  Swiftwater | |
| Coordinates: 33°20′15″N 91°3′35″W / 33.33750°N 91.05972°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Mississippi |
| County | Washington |
| Elevation | 121 ft (37 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 ( Central (CST)) |
| • Summer ( DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP code | 38701 |
| Area code | 662 |
| GNIS feature ID | 692252 [1] |
Swiftwater is an unincorporated community located in Washington County, Mississippi, United States. [1]
History
Swiftwater began as Swiftwater Cotton Plantation, founded by Alexander Barckly Montgomery, who built a mansion there in either 1850 [2] or 1845. [3] Montgomery sold the plantation to Col. Ed Richardson, the world's largest cotton plantation owner in the 1870s and 1880s, and owner of plantations across the South. [3]
Swiftwater was a stop on the now-abandoned Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad, [4] completed in the 1880s. [5]
Located on the rail platform was the Swiftwater Store, owned by the E.E. Richardson Company. The store was still in operation in 1910. [3] [5]
Swiftwater was never incorporated, but had a post office from 1886 to 1932. [5]
Notable people
Pete Shields, a professional baseball player with the Cleveland Indians, was born in Swiftwater. [6]
References
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Swiftwater, Mississippi
- ^ Miller, Mary Carol (1996). Lost Mansions of Mississippi. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-87805-888-4.
- ^ a b c Hall, Russell S.; Nowell, Princella W.; Childress, Stacy (2000). Washington County, Mississippi. Arcadia. pp. 29, 37. ISBN 9780738506555.
- ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 761.
- ^ a b c Howe, Tony. "Swiftwater, Mississippi". Mississippi Rails.
- ^ "Pete Shields". Baseball Reference.
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