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4 unusual facts about Swanton


Earle D. Chesney

Earle D. Chesney (born June 6, 1900 in Swanton, Nebraska; d. 1966) served with the Veterans Administration before joining the Eisenhower White House staff on March 4, 1954.

Swanton Pacific Ranch

The ranch encompasses rangeland, livestock and forestry operations for the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences and comprises a significant part of the community of Swanton.

Swanton, California

Ranched with dairy cattle since the California Gold Rush, Swanton was named after Fred Swanton, builder of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.

Swanton, Nebraska

Home of Willard Schmidt, 1936 Olympic Gold Medalist in basketball at Berlin.


Anthony Wayne Local School District

The school district serves students who live in the cities of Whitehouse, Waterville, and Monclova Twp.; also it serves students in parts of Swanton, Middleton, and Providence Twp. in Lucas County.

Comecrudo language

In 1886, Albert Gatschet recorded vocabulary, sentences, and a text from the descendants (who were not fluent) of the last Comecrudo speakers near Camargo, Tamaulipas, at Las Prietas (Swanton 1940: 55–118).

Durrus

Members of the Attridge, Baker, Dukelow, Gay, Gosnell, Shannon, Skuse, Swanton and Whitley families who hailed from the Durrus area settled in Rochester, New York in the early 1840s and were influential in Republican politics and city administration; they were known as the "99 Cousins"

E. W. Swanton

A respected biography of Swanton by David Rayvern Allen published shortly after his death revealed many previously unknown facts about his life.

Francisco de Chicora

Swanton (1940) proposed a connection with the Sugaree or Shakori; Rudes (2004) suggested Coree.

Jim Cochran

He started Swanton Berry Farm in 1983 near Santa Cruz, California and subsequently developed a wide range of new methods, which include crop rotations, such as broccoli and brussels sprouts, trap crops such as mustard and alfalfa, and the use of natural predators, to control strawberry specific pests and diseases.

Light Dragoons

Currently based in Robertson Barracks Swanton Morley, Norfolk (formerly RAF Swanton Morley), they are commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Sam Plant MBE.

Participatory design

The City of Melbourne Swanton Street redevelopment project received over 5000 responses from the public allowing them to participate in the design process by commenting on seven different design options.


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