 Bowdre was, until the late 1960s, also located on a busy Illinois Central Railroad line (since relocated) and along the former route of Mississippi Highway 61.Bowdre is approximately southwest of Robinsonville and approximately north of Hollywood.Bowdre was the site of a railroad accident on December 21, 1941 when eight members of a family employed on the plantation were killed attempting to cross the tracks in front of the Penn Owen company store.