Arden is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

located between Martinsburg and Inwood in Berkeley County,

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, United States. Arden was named in 1775 by the

Quaker Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations. Members refer to each other as Friends after in the Bible, and originally, others referred to them as Quakers ...

Jacob Moon after the district of Arden in

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. It is the location of a number of historic sites including th
Arden United Methodist Church
Trinity Church, and

Ar-Qua Springs Ar-Qua Springs, also known as the Thomas Thornbrough House or the Thomas Thornburgh House was built beginning about 1751 near Arden, West Virginia. The house was built by local Quaker elder Thomas Thornbrough, beginning as a one-room, 1½ stor ...

, which is listed on the

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References

Unincorporated communities in Berkeley County, West Virginia Unincorporated communities in West Virginia {{BerkeleyCountyWV-geo-stub