The new depot was dedicated on June 5, 2010. It has since been rebuilt using the original plans with only minor modifications to meet modern building codes. The building had been in the final stages of becoming a museum. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)-and was the oldest building in downtown Tehachapi until it burned in June 2008. Ĭonstruction of the original Southern Pacific-SP railroad depot was the beginning of the downtown core. It is now registered as California Historical Landmark #643 for being the oldest settlement in the Tehachapi Valley. Previously known as 'Old Town', Tehachapi was established in the 1860s. On an 1864 map of California, the name appears as Taheechepah.
According to Yokuts informant Wahumchah, recorded by anthropologist Frank Forrest Latta, Tehachapi derives from a Yokuts-Ute amalgam, from Yokuts taheech "oak-covered flat" + Ute pah' "water" (cl. The settlement has been formerly known and spelled as: Tehachapai Tehachapa Tehachepi Tehachipi and Summit Station.
It may be derived from the word for "hard climb" or tihachipia, according to the Tomi-Kahni Resource Center. One possibility for the origin of the name Tehachapi comes from the Kawaiisu language. The Kawaiisu people (also Nuwu ("people" in Kawaiisu), or Nuooah) are the Native American tribe whose homeland was the Tehachapi Valley, and seasonally the southern Sierra Nevada and Mojave Desert, for thousands of years.
The Errea House, originally built in the early 1870s in Tehichipa, was moved to Tehachapi in 1900 and is now a museum it is also listed on the NRHP.
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