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of Grietje and his hard-working young
children, saved enough to buy dairy cows
and to rent100 acres on the corner of
Market Street and Kerr Avenue from
W.B. McCleland. Eight years later he purchased
land, now known as Swartville, in
Castle Hayne. The dairy was a success and
D. Swart milk bottles lined the stoops of
many Wilmington homes.
Within a couple of years, Swart was
able to buy more land and by 1925 his
budding bulb business began to bloom.
Casey Swart, born in 1929, said that
in Swartville most of the 37 grandchildren
worked at a young age.
“By the time I was 5 years old, I was
milking cows after school.”
The family had become so successful
by the late 30s that Dirk and Grietje
purchased a car, shipped it to Holland
and toured their homeland. They visited
Zaandam, the old home place, and
reunited with family and friends.
“They were like celebrities,” Tilden
said.
Through the 30s and into the 40s,
when everyone around them was
struggling to survive, the Swarts were
self-sustaining. Tilden said they had
everything they needed: cows, chickens,
a large flourishing garden, fields of corn
for feeding the cattle, and no debt.
Acutely aware of their good fortune,
the Swarts spread it around. The dairy
continued to deliver milk to customers
who could no longer pay during The
Depression period. Later during World
War I, shoes, clothes and other nonperishables
were collected from customers
and often purchased by the Swarts
and sent to communities in Zaandam.
“They sent so many packages, that the
post office eventually gave them a special
rate,” Jeff Simmons, great-grandson of
Dirk Swart, says with a quiet laugh.
Near the start of the war, Dirk Swart
Sr. died, leaving the land and farm to
his sons and daughter. Grietje died soon
after. Prices increased during the war,
Original milk bottles used by the Cape
Fear Dairy, a successful business owned
by the Swart family.