Settlements in Old Perry County were later included in Forrest County, Taken from a booklet entitled "Mississippi Historical Review, Featuring Forrest & Lamar Counties". This information was selected because it references communities that were once in Perry County, W.P.A. Writers, 1940

Enon, one of the early settlements, was in the district now Forrest County. The first large school in Perry County was organized there in 1851. Captain Ben Stevens enlisted his company for Steeds Battalion, of the Confederate army, at Enon. At that time there was a lodge, church and school at this settlement.

James E. Dearman was one of the early settlers in Enon. He had a blacksmith shop. Later he moved to Augusta, and operated a ferry boat on Leaf River.

The Myers family came to Mississippi from South Carolina about 1810, when Porter Myers was ten years old. Daniel Myers came first in order to get things ready; that is, raise a crop of corn and build a house for each of the families. The following year David Myers came and brought the women and children, slaves and livestock.

Daniel Myers settled on the west side of the river and David on the east side in the Enon community. They operated grist and saw mills, and lived the typical pioneer life in rude log cabins, to which they added rooms as their families grew. All necessities of life were grown or made on the farms. Now, all that is left of these busy home places is a cedar tree planted more than 90 years ago, when Dr. T.L. Myers was born.

John R. Reed, an unusually well educated man for that period, was another early settler. John McCallum was the first white child born in Perry County (b. 1832, d. 1878, buried in Denham Cemetery, Mahned).

Indian Springs was settled around 1820. The settlement was named for the medicinal springs nearby, which had been used for many years by the Indians. Among the early settlers were William Carter, Cole Bennett, Davis Hawthorne, Wiley Allen, Rank Batson, Cage Courtney, Hamp Nichols, and Joe Nichols. The people were very scattered at this date, but the village continued to grow. A pay school was started, the parents paying a certain amount for each pupil they sent. In 1889, a free school was started and was paid for by the county. Also in 1889, a Missionary Baptist church was organized. At present, this community is thickly settled by prosperous farmers, who have large holdings of improved fields.

In 1816, Steven Lee entered lands in the northwest corner of Perry County. Following him, in 1817, came Eli Moffitt, William Binum, Daniel Johnson, Lewis Blackman, and Christopher Collins. John and Patrick Monroe arrived in 1818. These men formed the settlements of Rawls Springs. Later settlers were Thomas Grantham, who arrived in 1834, Jonathan Grantham, William Lott, James Edmonson, Benjamin and John Hood in 1836, and Ebenezer Granberry and Tandy K. Martin in 1837.

Within the bounds of the village are three mineral springs. These waters are still popular and a hotel has been built there.

Monroe was another early village in this vicinity. It was about a mile from the present town of Eatonville. In 1836 Washington Burkett purchased the lands known as Monroe. The old Providence Baptist Church was built by Stephen Lee, and is the oldest church in that part of Perry County that became Forrest County. At one time the town contained several stores and a post office, which was abandoned when rural routes were established. There is little left now of the settlement. The Burkett home was sold by the heirs and is now Vickers Plant Farm. Some of the early settlers were O.C. Rhodes, William Jenkins, Elijah Stephens, Everett Leem, Elijah Loveless, and Levi Travis.