Aloha
post office was established on January 8,1912. It was supposedly
named by Robert Caples, a railroad man, but the reason for
the name was unknown. In 1983, Joseph H. Buck of King City
informed the compiler that his uncle, Julius Buck, was the
first postmaster and that he named the office Aloah after
a small resort on Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin. During the
application process the last two letters were transposed
by the Post Office Department, resulting in the shift from
a Midwestern Native American name to a Hawaiian word. The Buck family
had come to Oregon from Wisconsin in 1907 and settled west
of Beaverton. An 1894 atlas shows a small community named
Alloa in Wisconsin about 30 miles north of Madison, but
Joseph Buck said that this name had no connection.