Gillespie Corners, Oregon

Gillespie Corners is a road junction and unincorporated locale in Lane County, Oregon, United States.cite web |url=http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1121135 |title=Feature Query Results |publisher= United States Board on Geographic Names, United States Geological Survey |accessdate=2008-07-29] cite web |url=http://geonames.usgs.gov/features.html#l |title=Feature Class Types |publisher= Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey |accessdate=2008-07-29] Gillespie Corners lies at the intersection of Territorial Highway and Lorane Highway, southeast of Eugene.

The area of "Gillespie Corners" is named for Marcellus M. Gillespie [1876-1948] and his brother Walter Benson Gillespie [1878-1971] , both of whom owned the land and operated adjacent farms at that intersection. They were the grandsons of 1852 Missouri to Oregon pioneer minister Rev. Jacob E. Gillespie [1809-1898] and the sons of two 1852 Missouri to Oregon settlers Marcellus Melanthon Gillespie [1846-1922] and Damaris Tandy (Benson) Gillespie [1846-1926] .

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