A week or so ago I admitted that my first job after high school was in a turkey packing plant and my job title was "Turkey Hanger." My employer was the huge meat processor, Swift & Co.
A few minutes ago I did a search to see if they still existed and found they were purchased in 2007 by a Brazilian conglomerate. I also learned that in 1855 a 16 year-old fellow named Gustavus Swift founded a slaughtering house in Eastham, Massachusetts.
If we pool our knowledge on surveyors contributing here from Massachusetts, it will surely dawn on one of us as to who we know very close to Eastham.
I grew up in Eastham MA, graduated the local High School, Nauset Regional, in 1975.....
Bob Freeman, on this board, lives in Eastham, I live two towns away. Spledeus, lives in Chatham, two towns South of Eastham.
I don't recall anything about slaughterhouses in Eastham, but turnips are huge! Lorenzo Dow Baker, the founder of United Fruit, came from Wellfleet, one town north of Eastham. Ton's of L.D. Baker land around! The "Swift-Daley" house is a local attraction and houses an unusual collection of old tools for your viewing pleasure.
This could have been the spot 🙂
This property now hosts the Eastham Post Office, as well as the Swift/Daley house, and a subdivision of at least three roads and a dozen homes.
Holy Cow, post: 455598, member: 50 wrote: If we pool our knowledge on surveyors contributing here
Did you mean Poole?
[USER=87]@Bill93[/USER]
The correct answer "donned" on you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavus_Franklin_Swift
In my herd, he is considered a mass murderer.
Swift once bragged that his slaughterhouses used "everything but the squeal." Sounds like a hero, not a mass murderer! LOL
