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The origin of the name Tenino, used by the Northern Pacific Railroad for their station when it was completed on October 8, 1872, [10] has been debated for over a century. The two main theories given for a century were that Tenino was a Chinook Jargon word for a fork or branch in the trail, or a form of T9o or 10-9-0 used by the railroad for a locomotive number, survey stake, or train car.
Tenino may refer to Tenino, Washington, a city in the U.S. state of Washington; Tenino people, a Native American tribe of the Pacific Northwest, also known as the ...
The Tenino people, commonly known today as the Warm Springs bands, comprised four local subtribes: the Tinainu (TinaynuÉ«áma), or Dalles Tenino: occupied two closely adjacent summer villages on the south bank of the Dalles of the Columbia River / Fivemile Rapids (Fivemile Rapids Site) and a winter village at Eightmile Creek (named from its distance, eight miles from The Dalles); the name of ...
Skinpah is a transliteration of sk’inpa, the locative form of Tenino sk’in 'cradleboard', a reference to a local rock formation which gave the principal village its name. [4] Various other transliterations and spellings (Skeen, Skin, Skein, Sk’in-pam) are also used to refer to the group.
The Tenino Downtown Historic District is two blocks long, one-half block-deep on either side of Sussex Street in Tenino, Washington. Approximately three acres in size, the district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 25, 2004. Sussex Street is the main thoroughfare through Tenino and is also part of Washington State ...
The city began efforts to create an historic district by April of that year, suggesting moving the building in 1975 next to the Quarry House and the Tenino Stone Company Quarry. [1] The city refurbished the depot and turned it into the Tenino Depot Museum, a museum of local history. Exhibits include a press used to make the original wood money ...
When Woodstock was over, Tenino-area residents held a public meeting to oppose Sky River II. It was billed as the Stop the Rock Festival Committee, meeting on August 21, led by a leader of the local John Birch Society , who claimed they couldn't allow an event that was the “glorification of communist movements in foreign countries.”
In 1876, Tenino struck a rock while moving down river. Her hull was too old to be worth salvaging, so OSN removed the engines and installed them in a new sternwheeler, called the New Tenino. [2] Another source states that Tenino was rebuilt a second time in 1876, and it was this reconstructed vessel that was known as the New Tenino. [1]