Edward Carelton Swift, at one time the owner of the largest meat packing operation in the U.S. built a mansion, Swiftmoor on Paine Avenue in Prides Crossing. Eleonora Eleo Sears a flamboyant female socialite and world class tennis player owned a residence that still exists where Paine Avenue and West Beach meet.
In 2003, burnt-out ex-CIA(SAD/SOG) Paramilitary operations officer and former U.S. Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance officer John Creasy (Denzel Washington) visits his old comrade Paul Rayburn (Christopher Walken), who runs a security firm in Mexico.
Statue of John Henry outside the town of Talcott in Summers County, West Virginia. John Henry is an African American folk hero. He is said to have worked as a steel-driving manâa man tasked with hammering a steel drill into rock to make holes for explosives to blast the rock in constructing a railroad tunnel.