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Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Oregon is home to over 2,000, [3] and 86 of those are found in Yamhill County. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 24, 2025.
McMinnville is the county seat of and most populous city in Yamhill County, Oregon, United States at the base of the Oregon Coast Range. The city is named after McMinnville, Tennessee . As of the 2020 census , the city had a population of 34,319.
The tunnel was driven by the Portland and Southwestern Railroad, whose chief business was logging. Unusually for a logging railroad, the Portland and Southwestern built tunnels. In order to reach the far side of the Nehalem divide in the Northern Oregon Coast Range, the railroad undertook a 1,712-foot (522 m) tunnel. Some work was started in ...
It operated until around 1922 when it was acquired by Big Creek Logging Company a subsidiary of Crossett-Western Lumber Co, which then formed the Gales Creek Logging Company. [6] Operations started here on March 1, 1923. [6] They employed about 200 men and the expected output was around 250,000 board ft. daily.
December 9, 1981 (2363 NW Flanders Street: Charles Francis Adams (1862–1943) was a prominent Portland banker, art collector, and patron of the Portland Art Museum.This house was designed for him by the eminent firm of Whidden and Lewis, built in the Georgian Revival style in 1904, expanded in 1918, and extensively restored in 1979.
McMinnville Downtown Historic District in McMinnville, Oregon, United States is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1987. [1] According to the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, "There are a total of 66 buildings in the district. However, 521-525 E 3rd is listed as only one building ...
One highly publicized instance of salvage logging followed the Biscuit Fire in Oregon and California in 2002. After the fire, the United States Forest Service salvaged timber burned by the fire. The process was expedited when President George W. Bush signed the Healthy Forests Restoration Act allowing salvage logging to occur more quickly and ...
One of the McMinnville UFO photographs. Skeptics have concluded that the UFO was a small model suspended by wires or string from the power lines visible at the top of the photo. 45°06′03″N 123°20′04″W / 45.10072°N 123.33439°W / 45.10072; -123.33439 The McMinnville UFO photographs were taken on a farm near McMinnville ...