Swiftwater, Mississippi

Swiftwater, Mississippi
Unincorporated community

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 / 33.33750; -91.05972Coordinates: 33°20′15″N 91°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 Central (CST) (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
ZIP code 38701
Area code(s) 662
GNIS feature ID 692252[1]

Swiftwater is an unincorporated community located in Washington County, Mississippi.[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

  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.
  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: |access-date= (help)
  6. ↑ "Pete Shields". Baseball Reference. Retrieved March 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)


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