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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.
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 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 ...
Workers milling logs in the steam-powered sawmill, during the Great Oregon Steam-Up of 2006. The signature event at Powerland Heritage Park is the Great Oregon Steam-Up, an event held each year during mid-summer (end of July and beginning of August) when many of the exhibits, normally displayed in a non-operational state, are fired up and shown running.
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 ...
Boring is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.It is located along Oregon Route 212 in the foothills of the Cascade mountain range, approximately twelve miles (19 km) southeast of downtown Portland, [2] and fourteen miles (23 km) northeast of Oregon City.
Henry Harrison Hunt, an Oregon Trail pioneer of 1843, established a sawmill in the Clifton area in 1845. [3] [4] By 1851 Hunt had moved on. [4] Later the site was an outpost for gillnetters. [5] In 1873 brothers James W. and Vincent Cook, pioneers of the Pacific Northwest salmon packing industry, established the second salmon cannery in Clatsop ...
The Molalla Log House, or the David Fox Granary, is a historic log cabin originally located in Molalla, Oregon. It represents perhaps the oldest extant building in Oregon if not the Pacific Northwest , built c. 1790 .