United States Simnasho Presbyterian Church, and Parsonage

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Steve West

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Feel free to take photos from the road side, but do NOT cross into the property. The property is part of the Warm Springs Tribal Nation. The following was taken from a metal detector website: "if you try to metal detect there or even walk around off the main road they will cite you for federal trespass."

About this spot
Simnasho is an unincorporated community in Wasco County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It lies at the intersection of Simnasho Road, Wapanitia Road, and Simnasho–Hot Springs Road within the Warm Springs Indian Reservation.[2] The name comes from a Sahaptin language word meaning black hawthorn bush.

A post office named Sinemasho was established here in 1886 but closed in 1887. A post office named Simnasho opened here in 1894 and operated, "with one intermission" through 1954.

I wasn’t able to find out much about the church beyond the fact that there are a LOT of photos of it all over the web. A local history site reports that it was Presbyterian, and hasn't been used since the late-1960s. The church and the small house to the west, what I assume must have the parsonage.

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