Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Swift, Alabama


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Daniel (talk) 16:50, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Swift, Alabama

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This is a difficult one to deal with on the maps, because it's right in the corner of a topo. I could not find the label until it was entered into GNIS from "U.S. Bureau of Soils. Soil Map, Barbour County, Alabama. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1914", which as we all know is not a good sign. The key to the affair lies on that "Swift Church Road", because Swift Presbyterian Church is still there, and they explain how the chapel was built because there wasn't anything else nearby, built on land donated by Mr. Swift, who owned a logging concern in the area. One presumes the post office got its name in the same manner. Anyway, not a settlement, from what I can see. Mangoe (talk) 15:00, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Alabama. Skynxnex (talk) 16:49, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, the history books confirm that this is where a logging railroad for the George W. Robinson and Charles A. Swift 1890s logging partnership began. Or, I should say, one history book.  If I could find more, this would be worth refactoring into the logging operation.  But there's not a proper biography of Swift that I can find, nor really more than half a page about the company in a book on logging in Alabama (ISBN 9780966624700), which says that this "was never legally documented in any manner". "Charles A. Swift had a long career as a leading businessman of Baldwin County and has justly earned a reputation for probity and honor in all business relations and was a fine type of Christian gentleman." says another highly partisan book, in quotation marks because it is apparently quoting someone's diary entry.  Well none of it got written into the history books that I can see, and now M. Swift is just a namedrop. Charles A. Swift ran a post office in Baldwin, but its name was Bon Secour according to the directories.  Where did you get the name Swift relating to post offices from? Uncle G (talk) 19:47, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
 * There's in the same BCH book that I mentioned in the discussion of  by the way.  I'm wary of such family-sourced histories. Uncle G (talk) 20:04, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete per the above discussion. The article sources the post office claim to  for what it's worth.  Eluchil404 (talk) 06:47, 10 December 2023 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.