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The company was founded in 1920 by Arthur Perdue [1] with his wife, Pearl Perdue, who had been keeping a small flock of chickens. [4] The company started out selling table eggs, then in 1925, Perdue built the company's first hatchery, and switched to selling layer chicks to farmers instead of eggs. [4]
Evans County is a county in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,774. [1] The county seat is Claxton. [2] A bill creating the county was passed in the Georgia General Assembly on August 11, 1914, and later, on November 3, 1914, an amendment was ratified by a vote of the people which formally created the county.
Perdue Farms was founded in 1920 by Arthur Perdue [3] with his wife, Pearl Perdue who had been keeping a small flock of chickens. [4] Their son, Frank, joined the company in 1939 at age 19 after dropping out of college at Salisbury University.
This marks the fifth detection of the virus in a flock in the state, but the first one in a commercial poultry operation. Last week, GDA officials announced that the virus was found in a flock of ...
Claxton is located at the center of Evans County at (32.160932, -81.908674 It is bordered to the west by the city of Hagan.U.S. Routes 280 and 301 intersect in the center of town; US 280 leads east 52 miles (84 km) to Savannah and west 36 miles (58 km) to Vidalia, while US 301 leads north 22 miles (35 km) to Statesboro and south 48 miles (77 km) to Jesup.
Bird flu cases are rising in U.S. states, with the first death reported this week in Louisiana. The spread of avian influenza (HPAI) has also impacted the nationwide supply of poultry products ...
Live bird markets in New York City, Long Island and Westchester County will be shut down for a week after seven cases of avian flu in poultry were found at live bird markets in Brooklyn, the Bronx ...
The Georgia Fruitcake Company was founded by Ira S. Womble, Sr. of Claxton. Womble began his career in the bakery business as an apprentice to Savino Gillio-Tos, the founder and owner of The Claxton Bakery, where he worked alongside Albert Parker, the future owner of the bakery and the person who would take The Claxton Bakery worldwide.