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Madras (/ ˈ m æ d r u s / MAD-russ) is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Oregon, United States. [5] Originally called "The Basin" after the circular valley the city is in, it is unclear whether Madras was named in 1903 for the cotton fabric called "Madras" that originated in the city of Madras (now Chennai) in Tamil Nadu, India or from the name of the city itself.
Jefferson County was created on December 12, 1914, from a portion of Crook County.The county owes much of its agricultural prosperity to the railroad, which links Madras with the Columbia River, and was completed in 1911, and to the development of irrigation projects in the late 1930s.
Completed in 1906, this bungalow is one of very few near-unaltered houses remaining from Madras's earliest years. It was the home of newspaper publisher and civic booster Max Lueddemann until 1909. Despite his short tenure in the young town, Lueddemann gained respect as a journalist , business leader, and real estate promoter .
Madras Municipal Airport (IATA: MDJ, FAA LID: S33), formerly City-County Airport, is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northwest of the central business district of Madras, a city in Jefferson County, Oregon, United States. [1]
The collection moved to a new 65,000 sq ft (6,000 m 2) facility at the Madras Municipal Airport in Madras, Oregon in May 2014. [4] [5] The collection repainted its B-17 as Ye Olde Pub in 2019. [6] [a] Shortly after being purchased by the Mid-America Flight Museum in 2020, a B-17G from the Lone Star Flight Museum was ferried to the museum for an ...
Between April 2013 and September 2014, the museum moved the part of its collection owned by Jack Erickson from Tillamook to Madras, Oregon. [4] [failed verification] In November 2014, the owners of Hangar B, the Port of Tillamook Bay, announced that they would continue operation of the Tillamook Air Museum with the remaining collection. [5] [6]
The Madras Pioneer was first published on August 25, 1904. [5] A year later Max Lueddemann purchased the paper, [6] and he sold it to Howard W. Turner in 1909. [7] William E. Johnson became the owner in 1924, [8] but died a year later of pneumonia. [9] May B. Johnson owned the paper from 1925 until 1946 when she sold it to W. H. Hall. [10]
The Max and Ollie Lueddemann House is a historic residence in Madras, Oregon, United States.Completed in 1906, only four years after Madras's first plat, it was the home of newspaper publisher and civic booster Max Lueddemann (1873–1954) until he moved on to Portland in 1909.