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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 ...
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
Adam Craig grew up in Tenino, Washington, 75 miles south of Seattle. He played baseball throughout high school until learning guitar at the age of 18. After playing one year of college baseball, and touring in a three-piece country band, Adam decided to focus on music, performing with Sara Evans and meeting with a Nashville-based producer.
The racetrack, originally called the Olympia-Tenino Speedway, [1] was constructed in 1971 by Dick and Wanda Boness. [2] [3] The track would later be owned by Jerry Cope, the uncle of Derrike Cope. [1] The racetrack was sanctioned for use as a NASCAR site from 1989 until 2002, when the partnership ended due to rising costs. [4]
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 ...
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. The ...
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.