Thanks Drexel, I found that information after the fact. It was also published in an 1989 issue of the Historical Quarterly. I suspect that is the time that Swift got its name. Brazelton didn't show it on a map in his 1885 History of Hardin Co. David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Drexel Hendon" <drhendon@comcast.net> To: <tnhardin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 7:51 PM Subject: [TNHARDIN] Swift Post Office > David, I did enjoy your article on Swift, TN in the Savannah Courier > recently. You may find the enclosed information interesting since it does > list Swift as a Post Office 1890 to 1909. Check the following web site: > > http://www.usgennet.org/usa/tn/state/tnpos.htm > > Did you send this article out on the: > > tnhardin@rootsweb.com > > If you did send it, please let me know the date or send me a copy. Is it > possible to access all of your articles at one web address? > > Thanks, Drexel Hendon > > Germantown, TN > > > > TENNESSEE PLACE NAMES AND POST OFFICES : INTRODUCTION AND INDEX > > The following list of post offices and Tennessee and their dates of > operation will be helpful to genealogists and historians hoping to > identify the location of a particular place name. Users should be aware > that the county listed is the county in which the post office was located > at the time of its creation. Later changes in county boundary lines may > have affected the home county of that post office. > > This list is based on records at National Archives listing postmaster > appointments from 1832 to 1971 (see National Archives microfilm > publications M1131 and M841). > > An excellent work compiled by D.R. Frazier and published in 1984 provides > the names of each postmaster in each Tennessee town or village, and gives > the dates of his or her tenure. This book, titled Tennessee Postoffices > and Postmaster Appointments 1789-1984 is available in many libraries. > > Special thanks are due volunteer Peggie Sides for her work on this > project. > > Swift Hardin County, TN 1890 > 1909 > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.8/973 - Release Date: 8/25/2007 > 5:00 PM > >