The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗According to linguist Keith Baca, the name Arcola may be derived from the Choctaw language meaning "jar".
In the 1900s, Leroy Percy owned the Trail Lake Plantation, a Southern plantation near Arcola.
In his 2015 travel book entitled Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads, author Paul Theroux describes it as a "ghost town."
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