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Blakelyville-Eula-Armet, Oregon

Isabell and John Blakely settled Blakelyville in 1887, and a post office opened in the community in 1910. Two years later, postal and Southern Pacific Cascade Line railroad officials renamed the town Eula, after longtime resident Jo Blakely’s daughter. Around 1925 or so, railroad officials again changed the town’s name from Eula to Armet, so that the town would not be confused with Eola in Polk County. When the United States Army Corps of Engineers constructed Lookout Point Dam in 1954, it displaced Armet's residents. Citizens never rebuilt their town after its inundation.