Arcola is an

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Tangipahoa Parish Tangipahoa Parish (; French: ''Paroisse de Tangipahoa'') is a parish located in the southeast corner of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 121,097. The parish seat is Amite City, while the largest city is ...

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Etymology

Some local residents believe that during the New Orleans yellow fever epidemic in the year 1853 several Italian families settled in the area. It is speculated that these first settlers named the village after

Arcole Arcole (pronounced ), historically also known as Arcola, is a ''comune'' with 5,274 inhabitants in the province of Verona. It is known as the site of the Battle of the Bridge of Arcole. History Between 15–17 November 1796, the Battle of Arcole ...

a small comune in the

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Prospect Hill

In the mid 1800s Arcola was also named Prospect Hill. In the year 1851 the

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railway was constructed and passed through the community. Some have speculated that the railroad gave the name "Prospect Hill" to the area. A local resident attempted to use this as a defense to avoid paying back a

promissory note A promissory note, sometimes referred to as a note payable, is a legal instrument (more particularly, a financing instrument and a debt instrument), in which one party (the ''maker'' or ''issuer'') promises in writing to pay a determinate sum of ...

. In the year 1855 the case of ''Joseph Lallande vs William G. Hope'' was brought before the

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due to the fact that the defendant lived in Arcola but his promissory note was sent to "Prospect Hill".

References

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