Many thanks to Scott Mitchell for sharing this 1880 photo of men in front of Tate House, located on the corner of East Main and Sparta in McMinnville.  Tate House was owned and operated by his great-great grandfather James Douglas Tate and wife Mary Jane (McGregor) Tate.   John Douglas Tate died in 1902; Mary Jane in 1911.   Soon after Mary Jane died, Charles and Martha (Tate) Mitchell sold the boarding house to the Brown family and moved to Nashville.  Tate House became known as the Brown House at that point.  Sometime prior to 1925 the boarding house burned down and the Brown Motel was built on the lot.

Charles A. Mitchell, Scott’s great-grandfather, is in the front row, to the right of the tree.  Can anyone identify the others in the picture?