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Date
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Sunday, March
3, 2002 |
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City
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171 |
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County:
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Thurston |
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City Name
History:
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Erroneously
claimed to originate from the railroad jargon ten-nine-oh variously
reported to be the number of a survey station at the site, Northern
Pacific engine number 1090 that regularly stopped at the station, and even
the number of a boxcar on the siding there in the early days.
Admittedly the town came into existence in the early 1870s as a railroad
construction camp during the laying of track from Kalama to Tacoma, but
the location already bore its present name. In the Chinook jargon tenino
means "fork" or "junction," and the name was given to
a point on an old Native-American trail which was so called and
subsequently so marked on territorial maps when the trail was expanded to
a military road during the Indian Wars of 1855-1856. |
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