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Landax, Oregon

Landax was constructed near a siding station for the Southern Pacific Railroad and established its first post office in December 1914 with Wilbur H. Hyland as postmaster and proprietor of a local logging operation. Around twelve families resided in this community and local students attended the Rush Island School. The post office relocated to a new townsite known as Signal thirteen years later, but it closed in 1938. The United States Army Corps of Engineers displaced Signal’s residents when it erected the Lookout Point Dam in 1954. Citizens never rebuilt their town after its inundation.