LIVE OAK, PERRY & GULF RAILROAD
1906 -
The Live Oak, Perry & Gulf was sold to Brooks-Scanlon Co. in 1929. This sale was associated with the Brooks-Scanlon Company moving its huge saw mill from Eastpoint to a new community called Foley, located five miles south of Perry. This community was named after one of the owners.
Townsend, Smith, and Blue Creek Junction were stops on the Live Oak, Perry & Gulf Railroad from the Lafayette County line into Taylor County with the final stop being Perry.
{ Note from the City of Perry Council minutes dated August 8, 1922 – Firemen were paid for responding to fires and one was a fire at the LOP&G Depot.}
In 1954 the Southern Railway System bought the Live Oak, Perry & Gulf and South Georgia Railroads from Brooks-Scanlon Corp.