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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.
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 ...
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 ...
The Sahaptin-speaking Tenino people, divided into four subtribes: Upper and Lower Deschutes (the Tygh and the Wyam), the Dalles Tenino, and the Dock-Spus (John Day); Two bands (The Dalles a.k.a. the Ki-gal-twal-la, and Dog River) of Wasco Indians who spoke a dialect of Upper Chinook;
Tenino purchased the quarry and surrounding acreage in 1946. The area was officially opened as a pool, known as the Tenino Memorial Pool or as the Veteran's Pool, by the city on June 8, 1950 [2] [4] [a] and remained without any significant upgrades until a 2018 renovation project funded in part by a grant of $200,000 from Thurston County.
Location of Thurston County in Washington. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Thurston County, Washington.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Thurston County, Washington, United States.
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 Warm Springs bands