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Arcadia is a city in Trempealeau County in western Wisconsin, set in the coulee country along the Trempealeau River.

Arcadia was founded in 1855 as the first settlement in the Trempealeau Valley, when Collins Bishop, George Dewey, George Shelley and James Broughton drove a herd of cattle up from southern Wisconsin and settled there.

Arcadia first grew on a hill above the river as Bishop's Settlement, then shifted down into the valley once the Green Bay and Western Railroad built its line through the valley.

A flour mill begun by David Massuere in 1858 and finished in 1860 was among Arcadia's first industries, and the historic grist mill building still stands.

Arcadia is the largest city in Trempealeau County, with 3,737 residents at the 2020 census.

Arcadia is the world headquarters of Ashley Furniture Industries, the largest manufacturer of home furnishings in the world.

Ashley built its first Arcadia factory in 1970, reviving a shrinking farm town, and the company's headquarters and plants now dominate the local economy.

Arcadia's 54-acre Memorial Park, built largely through Ashley's support, contains Soldiers Walk, regarded as one of the premier war memorials in the United States outside Washington, D.C., with monuments joined by an M-60 tank and an F-16 fighter jet.

Since 2009 Memorial Park has hosted Ashley for the Arts, a charity music and arts festival that has grown into one of the largest charity events in the country.

Arcadia is a Latino-majority city — a rarity in Wisconsin — after two decades of Hispanic and Latino immigration drawn by jobs at Ashley and the local poultry plant.