Editing Arcadia, Louisiana (section)

==History==
In 1934, bank robbers [[Bonnie and Clyde]] were killed near Arcadia in a shootout. Their bodies were brought for embalming to a furniture store in Arcadia which also served as a funeral parlor. Enormous crowds of onlookers descended upon the city when news of the pair's deaths there became public.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Treherne|first=John|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_I-n_AAuKwUC&dq=furniture&pg=PA10|title=The Strange History of Bonnie and Clyde|date=August 22, 2000|publisher=Cooper Square Press|isbn=978-1-4616-2423-3|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Castleden|first=Chloe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DsfABAAAQBAJ&dq=bonnie+and+clyde+arcadia+funeral+home&pg=PT17|title=Bonnie and Clyde: The Notorious Barrow Gang|date=August 18, 2011|publisher=Little, Brown Book Group|isbn=978-1-78033-343-4|language=en}}</ref>

Arcadia has been a center of the poultry industry, with up to 300 independent growers for years supplying the local feed mill operated by poultry company [[Pilgrim's Pride]].{{citation needed|date=May 2018}} In 2009 the company, facing bankruptcy, announced that it would close most of its Louisiana operations, including plants in Arcadia, [[Athens, Louisiana|Athens]], [[Choudrant, Louisiana|Choudrant]], and [[Farmerville, Louisiana|Farmerville]]; these operations were estimated to have provided a combined 1,300 jobs.<ref name="pilpr">{{cite news|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20090301/NEWS05/903010307&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL |author=Greg Hilburn and Robbie Evans |title=Pilgrim's Pride decision a bombshell: Sites closing in Arcadia, Athens, Choudrant, Farmerville |newspaper=[[The Times (Shreveport)|Shreveport Times]] |access-date=March 1, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141113004519/http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20090301/NEWS05/903010307%26referrer%3DFRONTPAGECAROUSEL |archive-date=November 13, 2014 }}</ref> Several weeks later, Pilgrim's Pride accepted a {{US$|80|link=yes}}{{nbsp}}million (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|80|2009|r=0}}&nbsp;million in {{Inflation/year|US}}) offer from [[Foster Farms (poultry company)|Foster Farms]] of California to purchase their operations and keep the plants running. Foster Farms put up $40 million of the purchase price, with the other $40 million covered by the State of Louisiana.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20090321/NEWS01/903210309 |title=Saved: 1,300 jobs |newspaper=Monroe News Star |date=March 21, 2009 |access-date=March 21, 2009 |author=Greg Hilburn |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141113015707/http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20090321/NEWS01/903210309 |archive-date=November 13, 2014 }}</ref>