There was reported, On This Day in 1880, a name dispute regarding a new church near the Arcadia Station in Peach Bottom. An article in the Lancaster Daily Intelligencer reads: “The colored people at Arcadia station on the Peach Bottom railroad, are restless about the name by which their new church is called by some. They have almost unanimously agreed to call it Mt. Holly , notwithstanding the white trash call it Arcadia .” The article includes a letter, from a brethren, to the Oxford paper. In that letter it is suggested that the church members call it whatever they wish and that it be known as Mount Holly at Arcadia Station. This brethren also refers to a town there named Rigby. A brief history of the church: The History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches by Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans also notes this church. They refer to it as Rigby. Listed under “African Churches,” it refers to the church as being “… located at Arcadia S...
by Jeanne Ruczhak-Eckman