A freight car first served as a
depot at Dyer in Gibson County Tennessee. Mr. Styles was the
first depot agent. Mr. Peck was the first section foreman in the
area and, for a while, the station was called "Peck's Switch".
The Dyer Depot was built somewhere around 1859 and torn down in
1974. Mrs. Marjorie Bynum was the last one to serve as an agent.
My grandfather, Wilbert Ray Blackburn, and his fiancé, Doris
Cooper, now Doris Blackburn, rode the train from Benton Harbor,
Michigan to Dyer. They visited my great-grandparents, the late
Paul and Neva Blackburn, who lived 3 miles east of Dyer in the
New Bethlehem community.