Swift Creek is a stream or creek running southwesterly in Bibb County, Georgia, United States. It is a tributary of the Ocmulgee River, joining it southeast of Macon. It is part of the Altamaha River watershed, draining to the Atlantic Ocean. The creek is associated with the Swift Creek culture and Santa Rosa-Swift Creek culture.
Famous quotes containing the words swift and/or creek:
“Days of plenty and years of peace;
March of a strong land’s swift increase;
Equal justice, right and law,
Stately honor and reverend awe;”
—Henry Holcomb Bennett (1863–1924)
“The only law was that enforced by the Creek Lighthorsemen and the U.S. deputy marshals who paid rare and brief visits; or the “two volumes of common law” that every man carried strapped to his thighs.”
—State of Oklahoma, U.S. relief program (1935-1943)