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Quote: | The name was Artic, incorrectly spelled, whether on purpose or not, |
The strange spelling is attributed to bad penmanship. The community was to be named Arta, after Arta Saunders, one of the community's founders. A hand-written application for a Post Office was filed in the 1880's. Someone in Washington, DC read the final "a" as "ic" and the error became fact.
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