When quality grade sandstone was discovered here
quarrymen came from far and wide
to work. The sleepy junction town of Tenino sprang to life as a boomtown. The Tenino Stone Company Quarry's proximity to the first Tenino Depot provided easy . . . — — Map (db m294435) HM
This 25 foot wooden Caboose Car, X549, was one of forty-seven built by the Great Northern Railway at the Waite Park Car Shops in St. Cloud, Minnesota between April 1923 and November 1923 at a cost of approximately $1900.00. Its original number was . . . — — Map (db m280363) HM
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn;
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them."
4th stanza from the poem.
"For the . . . — — Map (db m294635) HM WM
World War I
Anderson, Ben D.
Ashley, Atkins, Jesse R.
Barnhouse, Elmer Benedict, E. N.
Benedict, Walter
Blevin, John
Bloomstorm, Elmer
Borman, John
Brach, August
Brand, Thomas
Brown, John
Brown, Lester
Butler, . . . — — Map (db m316422) WM
World War I
Russell Wilcox
Charles C. Cady
Leon A. Beebe
Ole E. Counts
William T. Mullaney
William Percy
Gustave Prenxlau
Olstead
World War II
George Pendarvis
John Doyle
Orange Cummings
Lloyd . . . — — Map (db m294620) WM
From 1871 to 1873 the Northern Pacific Railroad constructed the Prairie Line from Kalama on the Columbia River to Tacoma on Puget Sound. With the coming of the railroad, logging and milling operations moved inland along the rails. Many of these . . . — — Map (db m192407) HM
This building once served as the Hercules
Stone Company office at Hercules Quarry
No.1. It was designed by Walter Scheel. The main
offices were upstairs while the lower floor was the
drafting department. When Hercules went
bankrupt, the City . . . — — Map (db m298038) HM
The Tenino Stone Company wasn't the only Sandstone Quarry Operation in town, but it was the first, and its site, the most iconic. The first Quarry Office was located where the Tenino Depot Museum is today. This second Quarry Office (now called the . . . — — Map (db m294669) HM
