Notes:
Stephen Hodgdon -
His land was located directly on the old Oregon Trail at the point where it turned north to Tumwater and the Hudson’s Bay Company trail continued eastward to Yelm Prairie and Fort Nisqually.
It wasn’t long before the Hodgdon Farm was referred to as “Hodgdon’s Station” and became a regular stop on the stagecoach road from the Columbia to Olympia. Soon Samuel Davenport took up an adjoining land claim to the west, and B. J. Henness settled on the east side of the present townsite.
In 1872, the railroad from the Columbia reached Hodgdon’s farm and a station was built and named “Tenino”.
Fred Brown -
Brown had moved along with the railroad construction crews in a tent store until reaching Tenino, and apparently decided this was a good place to settle down. Joining the depot and the store to form the nucleus of a town was a hotel owned and operated by William Huston. “Uncle Billy”
sandstone quarry. S. W. Fenton and George VanTine located a good grade of building stone on the hill south of Tenino and began an industry that changed Tenino from a sleepy little whistle stop to a bustling town.
Sandstone Quarry -
S. W. Fenton and George VanTine located a good grade of building stone on the hill south of Tenino and began an industry that changed Tenino from a sleepy little whistle stop to a bustling town.
VanTine and Fenton’s Tenino Stone Company was located on the site of the present city park and pool, and began shipping out stone in 1889.
A second quarry soon followed east on the Military Road. It was called the Eureka Sandstone Company.
A third quarry was located on Lemon Hill, west of Tenino in the early 1900’s by H. P. Scheel and William McArthur under the name Hercules Stone Company.
Mentzer Brothers’ Mill -
Jonis Spar Company -
Skookumchuck Mill -
By 1905, Tenino had four grocery stores, two meat markets, a half-dozen saloons, three hotels, two dry goods stores with jewelry stores, cigar stores, confectioners, and even a stationer.
thermal-electric generating plant -
In 1967 announcement was made of the proposed building of a thermal-electric generating plant in the Hanaford Valley south of Tenino, and the re-opening of the once active Tono coal fields. The plant went into operation in the fall of 1971.
Links:
Thurston County Pioneers Before 1870 - Pioneer Location Info & More
http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov/pioneer/index.htm
Source:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~washingtonparish/blog/tenino.txt