Arcola now has a population of over 100, one grocery store, a filling station, garage, hardware store, custom feed mill, a post-office, two Churches, Christian and Baptist. This second church building was blown away in 1873, and the congregation put up their next building in Arcola, a mile and a half north. Several bodies were moved to the new location the cemetery was known as the Hickory Grove Cemetery, until a few years ago, when it was changed to Arcola Hickory Grove Cemetery. A great storm blew the building away and in 1871, the Methodists bought land across the road in the NE 1/2 SE 1/4 section 10, township 32, range 27, and built a frame church. It was built of logs and used for a school and a Cumberland Presbyterian Church, with a cemetery to the west. One of the first churches and a school and a cemetery was located one and one-half miles south and a little west of the present town of Arcola. After he bought the land in section 2, township 32, range 27, he moved the building and stock of goods across the prairie with ox teams to the new location. Cyrus Bean had a store, one mile south and one mile west of the present site of Arcola, southeast corner of section 4. (Arcola was named in honor of Arcola, in northwest Italy, where Bonaparte, in 1796, gained a decisive victory over the Austrian troops.) Mr. Also, from National Archives, Sun's Creek is listed, 13 June, 1871, Cyrus Bean postmaster, changed to Arcola, 8 April 1873. 1853, in section 11, township 33, range 27, and lived here when he died in 1895.
He is buried in the Arcola Hickory Grove Cemetery. Travis lived when he was postmaster, but at the time of his death, he lived one and one-half miles south and one fourth mile east of the present site of Arcola. Travis, postmaster, discontinued February 4, 1864.
From National Archives of Post-offices, Son's Creek is listed for 1857, with Edward H. In Gazetteer of Missouri, Campbell, 1874, pp 181-182, Son's Creek appears on the list of post-offices for 1856 & 1861. The exact location of the first post-office is not known but, in Campbells' New Atlas of Missouri, 1874, p 35, Sun's Creek, Son's Point, and Pleasant Hill are listed in North township. On the 20th day of January 1872, Isaac Killingsworth sold to Cyrus Bean two acres of land in the northwest corner of section 2. White entered the northwest quarter of section 2-32-27, and sold the same to Isaac Killingsworth on the 3rd day of April, 1861. A Directory of Towns, Villages, and HamletsĪrcola (Pleasant Hill, Son's Creek, Sun's Creek) This community is 10 miles north, northwest of Greenfield, on Highway 39, in North Township, located in Township 33 N, range 27 W, sections 34 & 35, also Township 32, range 27 W, sections 2 & 3.
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