McMinnville Scottish Festival
Sat, Oct 04
|McMinnville
https://celticheritage.org/mac-scottish-festival/
Time & Location
Oct 04, 2025, 10:00 AM – Oct 05, 2025, 4:00 PM
McMinnville, NE Fairgrounds Dr, McMinnville, OR 97128, USA
About the event
McMinnville Scottish Festival .. We’re putting the “Mac” back in McMinnville
McMinnville has grown to be an internationally recognized city in the heart of Willamette Valley known best for its small town main street, and its place in the rich Willamette Valley wine industry, early UFO sightings, and the resting place of the Hercules (Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose).
With all this attention it seems few have pondered why it bears the name of McMinnville? Did anyone of importance in city history have that name? Are there Scottish or Irish roots?
As it turns out, no one in the city’s history was named McMinnville. The city’s founder William T. Newby (1820–1884), an early immigrant on the Oregon Trail, named the city after his hometown McMinnville, Tennessee. He must have cared for his home quite a bit to establish a city across the country with the same name.
McMinnville does indeed have…