Perdue is an unincorporated community located in

Newton County Newton County is the name of six counties in the United States. All except for Arkansas (and perhaps Mississippi) are named for Sgt. John Newton, a soldier of the American Revolutionary War who became a fictionalized hero. Many counties share a bo ...

, Mississippi, United States. Its ZIP Code is 39337.

History

Perdue was first established in 1905 as the junction of the Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad and Buckwalter Lumber Company logging road based out of Union, Mississippi. There was a commissary there, maintained by the railroad, which served the

lumbermen Lumberjacks are mostly North American workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees for ultimate processing into forest products. The term usually refers to loggers in the era (before 1945 in the Unite ...

that resided there. Dummy lines were built north extending into

Neshoba County Neshoba County is located in the central part of the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 29,087. Its county seat is Philadelphia. It was named after ''Nashoba'', a Choctaw chief. His name means "wolf" in the ...

, where logging was done by contractors. The town had a large depot and several

camp car :''The term crew car may also refer to a track speeder.'' A crew car (also known as a relay van) is a passenger carriage specially fitted out for the use of train drivers. Interior fittings include a sleeping compartment for each crew member, a ...

s where railroad employees lived. At one point, it had nearly 100 residents. When all of the timber was gone, logging was abandoned and the town lost most of its industry.

References

Unincorporated communities in Newton County, Mississippi Unincorporated communities in Mississippi {{NewtonCountyMS-geo-stub