Arcola
The opening of the Perkiomen Railroad is responsible for establishing three
new villages in the township, viz.: Oaks, Arcola and Yerkes. The people in
the vicinity asked that their station be named Oakland. The railroad
company named it simply Oaks, as there was another station in the State of
the name suggested. A post-office is now here of the same name. Arcola was
first known as "Water-Tank", next as "Doe Run" Station, but lately named
Arcola, after the large mills of Messrs. Wetherill & Co. There is a very
small village here. "Yerkes" is so called after Mr. Isaac Yerkes, a
respectable citizen, and the owner of the land on which the station was
established. Quite a village is now growing up around it, with a post-office of the same name recently established. [1]
- Bean, Theodore W., History of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Everts and Peck, 1884
Nearby Neighborhoods
Street Names
Arcola Road
