McMinnville Wedding

McMinnville is the county seat and largest city of Yamhill County, Oregon, United States. According to Oregon Geographic Names, it was named by its founder, William T. Newby, an early immigrant on the Oregon Trail, for his hometown of McMinnville, Tennessee. As of January 2006, the city had a total population of 30,089.

McMinnville was incorporated as a town in 1876 and became a city in 1882. County residents voted to move the county seat of Yamhill County from Lafayette to McMinnville in 1886.

A tourist attraction located in McMinnville is the Evergreen Aviation Museum, which houses the Spruce Goose, the world's largest propeller-driven airplane, built by the famed aviator Howard Hughes. The museum, a large symmetrical building with a glass front, holds many airplanes used in America's wars during the twentieth century.