History · Tehama · established 1906
Tehama’s history is mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Tehama. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
1906 established
1 old photo or paper
1 historic places
1 need a date
From Tehama’s archive · credits on each photo What stands out about Tehama’s past Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Help out Start Tehama’s collection The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Tehama’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos 00s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album. The story How Tehama came to be From Wikipedia’s history of Tehama.
Read it all → A Nomlaki village of Wintun people once stood on the site of modern-day Tehama on the western bank of the Sacramento River.
Tehama (pronounced Tuh-HAY-muh) was founded by Robert Hasty Thomes, who arrived in the area that is now Tehama County in the company of Albert G. Toomes, William Chard, and Job Francis Dye. The four men travelled northward from San Francisco, and were each given land grants from the government of Mexico in 1844, with Thomes' portion being Rancho Saucos.
Text from Wikipedia , licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 .
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Tehama, decade by decade Then & now Stand where they stood No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this view Southern Pacific Railroad Shasta Route, Bridge No. 210.52, Milepost 210.52 Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Tehama’s page.
Retake this view · +15 On the National Register 1 historic place in Tehama The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1980
Molino Lodge Building
in California
#254
by listings
Architectural styles listings Greek Revival 1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Famous people Famous people close to Tehama Nobody well known was born in Tehama itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
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What used to stand where something else is now in Tehama? → Who remembers Tehama in the 1950s? → A family story from old Tehama → Does anyone have photos of Tehama from the 1990s? →
From Wikimedia Commons (2), the Library of Congress (1), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1) and Wikipedia. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
Date?
2025
2006
