The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The town was founded in 1921, and named after John Tennant, an official for the Long Bell Lumber logging company, which ran logging operations in the area until the 1950s. At its peak, Tennant had over 1,000 residents in summer, and boasted a hotel, pool hall, barber shop, hospital, store, and maintenance facilities for six logging locomotives used to carry timber between the forests and the large sawmill at Weed. Long Bell ended operations at Tennant in 1955 and donated the townsite to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who then sold it to investors who unsuccessfully attempted to turn it into an artist colony. By 1962 the entire town was owned by one individual, Clarence Bullock, who intended to make Tennant a retirement community and who credited the cool, dry, sunny climate with restoring his health. The earliest residents of Tennant held regular reunions until 1978, and since then T…
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Start Tennant’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Tennant’s history is told.
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Nothing in Tennant is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Tennant has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Hotel Macdoel in Macdoel, 17.8 miles away.
Tennant and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.