Mendenhall - Names of Things

Names of Things

  • Mendenhall Observatory, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
  • Mendenhall Order, a decision to change the system of weights and measures to the metric system
  • Mendenhall Plantation, a historic 1811 Quaker Homeplace in Jamestown, North Carolina, USA
  • Occasionally used as an improper transmutation of Mildenhall, especially RAF Mildenhall

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