arcadia to arcadia, ok

arcadia is the start line and the first aid station point. "how does that work?" you might ask, well, the distance from arcadia to sapulpa is not 100 miles, so we have to add some miles in. we will start at the round barn in arcadia and run west for 4.15 miles before we turn around and begin our eastward journey.

click here to view the route in gmaps pedometer.

Arcadia is best know for the Round Barn, Built in 1898 and now restored to its former glory, the Round Barn houses a gift shop and Route 66 exhibit on the ground floor and a meeting hall on the upper floor.

The roots of the economy in the Town of Arcadia were in the agriculture field. Cotton was the cash crop for the economy. The town had three cotton gins as well as a pharmacy, school, post office, churches, general store and other assorted businesses. In 1924 the town fell victim to a great fire that destroyed all the businesses and buildings on the east side of Main Street. Many of the buildings were never to be replaced after the fire. The town went along for the next fifty years at its small town pace until 1974. In November of 1974 the town was deluged with a downpour of rain that washed out many of the bridges and roads of the area. So much of the railroad tracks were damaged that the trains stopped running to Arcadia. The train has never returned to Arcadia since that day.