Arcola, MS

Arcola is a town in Washington County, Mississippi. The 2020 census counted 304 residents. In the 1900s, Leroy Percy owned the Trail Lake Plantation, a Southern plantation near Arcola. Arcola is home to Deer Creek Academy. Arcola is also home to the Deer Creek Academy, an independent private school founded in the 1970s. The through line in Arcola is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Arcola makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today.