Editing Tacna, Arizona (section)

==History==
By 1859, the [[Butterfield Overland Mail]] stagecoach company had opened the [[Antelope Peak Station]] at the foot of [[Antelope Hill, Arizona|Antelope Hill]].<ref name=Vivian>R. Gwinn Vivian, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/30247031 "An archaeological survey of the lower Gila River, Arizona"], ''The Kiva: Journal of the Arizona Archaeological Society'', vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 95–146, April 1965.</ref>  A [[post office]] named Tacna was created following the building of the [[Southern Pacific Railroad]] in the 1870s, but did not last long.<ref name="arizonaplacenames"/>  The name Tacna subsequently only referred to a [[railroad siding]] serving as a watering station.<ref>[http://usgenwebsites.org/AZYuma/places.htm "Places"], ''Yuma County AZGenWeb'', retrieved October 23, 2022.</ref>  The town of Tacna was founded by Max B. Noah in the early 1920s, named after the railroad stop. At the time he sold the town in 1941, it contained a post office and a restaurant called Noah's Ark. After the town's sale, the post office was relocated four miles east, and the original railroad siding was renamed to Noah.<ref name="arizonaplacenames">{{cite book |last1=Barnes |first1=William Croft |title=Arizona Place Names |date=1960 |publisher=University of Arizona Press |pages=386–387 |ol=5789756M |url=https://openlibrary.org/books/OL5789756M/Arizona_place_names.}}</ref>

There is an apocryphal story that the name Tacna is derived from ''Tachnopolis'', a Greek priest from California who is supposed to have settled amongst the native population.  This claim appears to be entirely an invention of Noah.<ref name="arizonaplacenames"/>