Ellingson Road — Valley of Flowers

Sal on SR 167 Northbound: Tacoma to Renton · Oct 29, 2026 · 1m

Sal: Between Ellingson Road and Fifteenth Street Southwest. Sal: The town beside this junction was first known as Valley City. A 1907 classified ad in the Seattle Times called it "the new place on Tacoma Interurban." When a post office opened in 1909, the name had to change, to avoid confusion with a similarly named post office in eastern Washington. Residents proposed "Algoma," said to be an Indian word meaning "valley of flowers," and also the name of a town in Wisconsin. But the name as approved was spelled Algona. Peggy: So the town is named after a typo? Sal: That is one way to tell it…