The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusPerkins is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in western Scott County, Missouri, United States. It is located sixteen miles northwest of Sikeston. A post office called Perkins has been in operation since 1890. The community has the name of Amos Perkins, a businessperson in the local lumber industry. Perkins is found in the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Northern Division Employee Time Table No. 10 dated August 18, 1935. Perkins was station I-24 at milepost 23.76. It had a 20 car siding. In 1935 terms that was 900 feet long, as the then standard car was 45 feet in length. There was a mail crane at Perkins. It was a flagstop for passenger trains #5 and #6. Nearby Randles …
Half of its homes were built before 1972.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Perkins yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Perkins’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Perkins, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Perkins is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Perkins has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Scott County Courthouse in Benton, 11.6 miles away.
Perkins and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.