Information found in the book"Perkey's Nebraska Place Names" by Elton A. Perkey, 1995, copyrighted by the Nebraska Historical Society. Submitted by: Todd Jennings

Listed as a ghosttown on your website, Arden was never really a town.  It was the name of the Post Office operated by my great-grandmother in the soddy on her homestead in Boone County, NE.  Margaret Elizabeth Black Kunkel was widowed in Pennsylvania and homesteaded with eight children to Boone County Nebraska in the late 1800s.  They built a sod house (picture attached) and lived in it from 1878 to 1911 when their frame home was built.  The Kunkel ranch was a popular stopping point for travelers.  The post office was established June 15, 1880, with Margaret Elizabeth Kunkel as postmistress.

After the death of her youngest son, Harry Leighton Kunkel and then his widow, Edith McNeal Kunkel, the ranch was sold by the surviving four children in 1950.  The youngest of those four children was my father, Harry Warren Kunkel.
Arden, Nebraska
 
Dorothy Kunkel Youngblood