Iddo

[ community, post office (established 21 May 1889 moved to Luther 15 April 1907) ] Tallahassee Daily Democrat, Thursday, May 6, 1926 - Pecular names on new road - The people of Perry are especting a change to the system of naming Pullman cars because there is every indication the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad has hired the Pullman Company's name selector and put him to work in Florida. This belief, or expectation, or whatever it might be called, grows out of the fact that two of the new stations on the Coast Line's Perry-Monticello division, now under construction, have been named, and they are typical Pullman car names. The first station north of Perry, five miles from here, has been dubbed "Secotan" while the one established near Pleasant Grove has been offically designated as "Iddo."

I'm not sure the newspaper article above is totally correct as I will show in the following minutes of the Board of Taylor County Commissioners held in the Town of Perry on the 6th day of July AD 1896. There was an Iddo neighborhood long before the Railroad came through that area.

The petition of citizens of Iddo neighborhood asking to have discontinued, the public road leading from Fulford bridge on Econfina River to the county line near C. M. Arnold's which was layed over at last meeting as unfinished business, was upon consideration not granted it hasving been shown to the satisfaction of the board that said piece of road was very important to other sections of the county, as a market road, and the said petition having been rebuked by another petition from other citizens of same settlement.