A BRIEF HISTORY OF TENTHILL

The name Tenthill is comes from the name of a pastoral property established by 1845 by Phillip Friell.

Tent Hill Upper State School opened on 27 August 1877; it closed on 31 December 2002. It was at 51 Upper Tenthill School Road

Congregational services were initially held in the home of F.C. Kingston, the manager of the T.B. Cribb's Upper Tenthill property. In June 1881 the congregation called for tenders the construction of the Tenthill Congregational Church on land donated by James Logan. The plans and specification were prepared at no charge by Mr. A MacGregor of Ipswich and it was constructed by Mr H. Percy for £78 10s. The church was 28 by 16 feet (8.5 by 4.9 m) and opened on 18 December 1881. It closed in November 1979. It was relocated to the Gatton Historical Village on 19 August 1984 where it was restored and rededicated on Sunday 4 November 1984. It is used as a wedding chapel.

A Baptist congregation had formed by 1881. In 1902, a Baptist church opened in Tent Hill. A new church was built in 1951.

In the 1980s, Australian country music singer-songwriter Stan Coster held his Stan Coster Show at the Tenthill Hotel to crowds too large to be accommodated in the hotel. Following his death in 1997, a memorial to Coster was unveiled by Bob Katter at the Tenthill Hotel Carpark on Saturday 27 May 2000.

In the 2016 census, Upper Tenthill had a population of 234 people.