The Village of Arnold is located on the Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad at the crossing of the gravel road leading from Plain city to New California
     The railway station was located and the village platted on the land of Mrs. George Arnold, for whom the town is named, in the fall of 1893.  The station was first named New California, until application was made for a postoffice, and the name was then changed, as there was a postoffice at New California.
     Mr. James Arnold, who established the first grocery in the village, was appointed Postmaster.  He discontinued business and the office was abandoned.  Fred Smith was commissioned Postmaster in 1896, but never performed the duties, as he sold his business just at the time his commission arrived.  Mrs. Carrie Fleck was then appointed to the position, and she, with her husband, Perry Fleck, established a general store in the village in the fall of 1896.
     Mrs. Fleck continued as Postmistress until the office was discontinued, March 1st, 1910, by reason of establishing free mail delivery, and mail is now received from Plain City, R. R. No. 3.  Mr. and Mrs. Fleck have built up a good trade in groceries and drygoods, and deal largely in produce by having a wagon run on a number of routes through the country, and deliver their produce in Columbus every week.
     There is one grocery, of which J. W. Cunningham is proprietor; an ax-handle factory, and two warehouses, both owned by J. R. Herriott, at the Station.  Quite a large amount of goods - coal and other freight - is received at the Station, and a great deal of timber and sawed lumber is shipped from this point.  There are twenty-four dwelling houses and the village has a population of about one hundred, the children attending the Central School at New California.