Arcadia Fifty Eight Years in The Making
ARCADIA FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS LATER. Comparing Holly Swigert’s poem (1894) and Jackie Burge’s Arcadia (1930 – 1952 lends to some interesting statistics. Horses, as a means of transportation, was replaced with automobiles, which accounts for the loss of twelve horse-related business in Arcadia ( two livery barns, two blacksmith shops, two harness stores, a wagon rental shop, two horse barns, a wagon repair shop, a grain & hay merchant, and a horse sales barn). Twelve Other businesses left Arcadia during this period (a real estate office, two coal merchants, a mill, a clock repair store, a tin merchant, a candle shop, a portrait artist studio, a shoe repairman, farm equipment store, a brick & tile manufacturing plant, a delivery business, and a hide & skin sales business).