Arlington, Missouri

[4] Originally settled by Thomas Harrison and James Harrison and later established as a township by General Fremont circa 1867, the town was renamed for the former Robert E. Lee plantation (later a cemetery) at Arlington, Virginia,[5] Folk etymology maintains the name honors Arlie, the wife of a local merchant.

Located on the last section of U.S. Route 66 in Missouri to be paved, in 1931, the tiny community served fishermen on the Gasconade and Little Piney Rivers.

[7] Stony Dell Resort capitalised on Route 66 and the nearby Fort Leonard Wood military base to grow in the 1930s and early 1940s from a small group of tourist cabins to a popular oasis which included a stream-fed swimming pool, a restaurant, service station and bus stop, offering tennis, dancing, boating and fishing.

Most of the Stony Dell Resort was lost to demolition during freeway construction; the restaurant, archway, the fish pond, the gas, food, and gift store, some of the classic stone work, and a handful of cabins remain, now abandoned.

No longer easily accessed by rail and road, Arlington is now merely a small group of private residences.