Chimney Swifts of Northville, New York

Migratory Birds who span approximately 7000 miles from the Amazon jungle of South America to the north country of New York State.

First Study of the Chimney Swifts was made by Walker A. La Rowe of the Northville Rotary ...

Armour and Swift Plaza

Designated as a state archeological landmark in 1987. This plaza honors the meatpacking industry, which helped make Fort Worth the livestock center of the southwest.

In 1901, both meatpackers signed identical contracts with the Fort Worth Stock Yards Company, giving the ...

Swift Sure Stage Line

1799

Marking the route through Scotch Plains of the Swift Sure Stage Line Philadelphia to New York.

Erected by Scotch Plains Chapter D.A.R.

February 12, 1941

Marker is on Front Street (County Route 620) near Park Avenue (County Route 655), in the median.

Courtesy ...

Swift Berry

“Mr. Clamper”

Born Nebraska 1887. Educated Biltmore Forest School, North Carolina. Began career 1908 in California with U.S.F.S.

Major U.S. Army A.E.F. 1917 – 1919

General Manager

Michigan California Lumber Co. 1925 – 1949

California State Senator 1952 – 1960

We salute our esteemed Clampatriarch and ...

Swift Creek Battlefield: A Landscape of Change

The Bermuda Hundred Campaign began on May 5, 1864, when Union General Benjamin Butler and the 33,000-man Army of the James landed at Bermuda Hundred nine miles northeast of here. General Butler's westward advance threatened Drewry's Bluff and Richmond to ...

Battle of Swift Creek

"Brave to Madness"

You are standing in the middle of the Union line that faced the Confederate route of attack up the Richmond Turnpike on May 9, 1864, during Union Gen. Benjamin F. Butler's Bermuda Hundred Campaign. Here, along Swift Creek, ...

George Parker Swift I

George Parker Swift, I, pioneer cotton manufacturer of Georgia, was born Sept. 1, 1815, in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. He moved to Georgia in the early 1840’s and started the Tribune Mills at Waymanville, Upson County, first making cotton thread and yarn, ...

The Swift Adobe

California Historical Landmark 345

The first house in Glenn County

Built about 1848

by

Granville P. Swift

A member of the Bear Flag Party, who came to California from Oregon in 1844. The site is 150 yards east on the banks of Hambright Creek. The ...

Swift & Company

A leading national meatpacking firm by the 1880’s, Swift & Co. adopted a practice of opening branch plants nearer the source of supply. Attracted to Texas by the state’s vast livestock herds. The company chose this site for a new ...

Swift Boat PCF1

Dedicated on 23 April 1998

by Senator John F. Kerry

and Wade Sanders of the

Swift Boat Sailors Association, Inc.

in recognition of those who served

and in memory of lost comrades

Marker is on Sicard Street SE, on the ...