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7 unusual facts about McMinnville


Danny Langsdorf

Langsdorf grew up in McMinnville, Oregon and played quarterback for McMinnville High School.

McMinnville

McMinnville, Oregon, the county seat and largest city of Yamhill County, Oregon, United States

McMinnville, Tennessee, the largest city in and the county seat of Warren County, Tennessee, United States

McMinnville, Tennessee

Born in Ravenscroft in 1925, he worked in the nurseries of McMinnville, hoeing bulbs as a teenager for $.10 per hour.

Verne Duncan

Born and raised in McMinnville, Duncan is a member of a pioneer Oregon family.

Whitney Blake

In the summer she worked at her mother's ice cream stand in McMinnville, Oregon.

William Jasper Spillman

One of the Spillman sisters and her husband were living in nearby McMinnville.


Gruetli-Laager, Tennessee

Just west of Gruetli-Laager, TN-108 intersects Tennessee Highway 56, which connects the area to Monteagle and Interstate 24 to the southwest and McMinnville to the northwest.

OR47

Oregon Route 47, a road connecting the Willamette Valley, near McMinnville, and the city of Clatskanie, along the Columbia River in the northwest part of the state

Saint Joseph, Oregon

Saint Joseph was named by Ben Holladay, who chose this location as the terminus of the westside line of his Oregon Central Railroad, in order to encourage competition between Lafayette and McMinnville.

Ziock Building

Operations were successful enough to launch three subsidiaries: Beloit Hoisery in Seneca Falls, New York; Tenn-Rock Hosiery in McMinnville, Tennessee; and Manchester Mills, Inc. in Manchester, Tennessee.


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