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Bellfountain, Oregon
Bellfountain is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Benton County, Oregon, United States. Bellfountain lies on Bellfountain Road north of Alpine and northwest of Monroe. The population was 75 at the 2010 census.〔(''American Fact Finder'' ), United States Census Bureau, United States Department of Commerce, Washington, District of Columbia, accessed 19 September 2015.〕
==Early history==
Early on, the area around Bellfountain was known as ''Belknap's Settlement''. A post office was established in 1895 called ''Dusty''. The community's name was later changed to Bellfountain. It was said to be named for Bellefontaine, Ohio. From 1902 to 1905, a Bellfountain post office existed.〔McArthur, Lewis A. and Lewis L. McArthur, "Bellfountain", ''Oregon Geographic Names'' (Seventh Edition), Oregon Historical Society Press: Portland, Oregon, 2003, p. 70.〕 After 1905, local residents received their mail in Monroe.
Bellfountain has also been said to have been named for the bell fountain, a natural spring that bubbled up about 1 mile west of Bellfountain where the Bellfountain Park is located. Flat rocks surrounding the natural artesian spring formed in the shape of a bell. People could view the bell fountain until sometime during the last 40 years when Benton County covered over the bell fountain with a cement building and a pump house to pump the water for use in the park. People are no longer able to view the bell fountain for which some people believe the town was named.
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