Editing Fords Prairie, Washington (section)

===Native American settlement===
The area was originally called "Tasunshun", meaning "resting place", by the [[Upper Chehalis]] tribe, the Quiyaisk.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McDonald |first1=Julie |title=Descendant of Pioneers Shares Living History in Free One-Woman Play |url=https://www.chronline.com/stories/julie-mcdonald-descendant-of-pioneers-shares-living-history-in-free-one-woman-play,6979 |access-date=December 12, 2021 |work=The Chronicle |date=October 28, 2019}}</ref><ref name="SCSWW">{{cite news |last1=Graham |first1=Julie M. |title=Small communities surrounding what would be Centralia come and go |url=https://www.newspaperarchive.com/us/washington/centralia/centralia-chronicle/2002/04-06/page-50 |access-date=February 27, 2025 |work=The Chronicle |date=April 6, 2002 |pages=14—15}}</ref> The tribe kept a permanent village on the lands, often used during the winter. Dwellings were usually huts in a [[tipi]]-style construction of cedar planks.<ref name="CTFFY">{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Herndon |title=Centralia: The First Fifty Years, 1854-1900 |date=1942 |publisher=The Daily Chronicle, F.H. Cole Printing Company |url=https://archive.org/details/centraliafirstfi00smit |access-date=March 6, 2025}}</ref>{{rp|4,78}}