Tampico’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Tampico. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The community was named Tampico by pioneer cattleman A. D. Elgin, for a town in Mexico where he once lived. Early pioneers settled in Tampico by at least 1872. By 1887, there were from 16 to 20 families living in the community.
Chief Kamiakin—who led the Yakama, Palouse, and Klickitat in the Yakima War—was born at Ahtanum Creek near Tampico in 1800. Near that site, St. Joseph's Mission was built in 1852, to be subsequently destroyed and rebuilt more than once; services are still regularly performed there.
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Start Tampico’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Tampico’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewSt. Joseph's Mission, Ahtanum Val…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Tampico
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Nothing in Tampico is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Tampico has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Kamiakin's Gardens in Tampico, 2.3 miles away.
Tampico and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as St. Joseph's Mission, Ahtanum Valley and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15From the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.