Swiftwater, Mississippi

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Swiftwater, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
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Cotton fields at Swiftwater, c. 1885-1898. Photo by William Henry Jackson.
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Coordinates: 33°20′15″N91°3′35″W / 33.33750°N 91.05972°W / 33.33750; -91.05972 Coordinates: 33°20′15″N91°3′35″W / 33.33750°N 91.05972°W / 33.33750; -91.05972
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(s) 662
GNIS feature ID692252 [1]

Swiftwater is an unincorporated community located in Washington County, Mississippi, United States. [1]

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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 person

Pete Shields, a professional baseball player with the Cleveland Indians, was born in Swiftwater. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Swiftwater, Mississippi
  2. ↑ Miller, Mary Carol (1996). Lost Mansions of Mississippi. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 101. ISBN   978-0-87805-888-4.
  3. 1 2 3 Hall, Russell S.; Nowell, Princella W.; Childress, Stacy (2000). Washington County, Mississippi. Arcadia. pp. 29, 37. ISBN   9780738506555.
  4. ↑ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p.  761.
  5. 1 2 3 Howe, Tony. "Swiftwater, Mississippi". Mississippi Rails. Retrieved March 2014.Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  6. ↑ "Pete Shields". Baseball Reference. Retrieved March 2014.Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)


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