Thanks Maxine for sharing about Ardena. That would be about where Ardena Road would be....7 miles from downtown Tacoma. Happy Holiday to you! Janet On Monday, November 24, 2003, at 05:25 PM, MAlexan206@aol.com wrote: > Janet: > According to Gary Reese's book "Origins of Pierce County Place Names" > he has > Ardena listed as a community 7 miles from downtown Tacoma on the old > Tacoma > Sumner Highway two miles east of Willow Junction. It is a farming > community & > was once a stop on the Puyallup street car oine from Tacoma;,,It was > named for > Alfred Tennyson's poem :Enoch Arden". > For your info Janet. > Have a nice Thanksgiving. > Maxine A. >