Ellendale, Oregon

Ellendale is a ghost town in Polk County, Oregon, United States, about two and a half miles west of Dallas.

[1] The community's name changed over the years, with the first post office in Polk County being opened in this locality as "O'Neils Mills" in 1850.

[1] The site was chosen for its proximity to water power for the mill, timber and a rock quarry that could provide millstones.

[1] In 1860, one of Oregon's earliest[1] woolen mills was started in Ellendale by Boise and several others, who had bought and converted a sawmill that had been built upstream from the gristmill in 1854.

[4] The Pumping Station Bridge in the Ellendale area was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979,[5] however, it collapsed in 1987 and was removed from the list.