[4] The business was started in his backyard, and at the time only produced table eggs from chickens,[4] but eventually grew into a $4.1 billion company.
[5] In the 1600s, Henri Perdue, a Huguenot, left France for the Province of Maryland to escape religious persecution.
[9] Perdue quit his job at the railroad and established his own commercial table-egg farm a few miles east of Salisbury, Maryland.
[7] The Arthur W. Perdue Stadium in Salisbury, Maryland, is home to the Delmarva Shorebirds baseball team, a class A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles in the South Atlantic League.
[11] In 2017, the farmhouse Perdue built in 1917 and lived in was added to the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties.