"TENTERFIELD TERRIER

1.  The name "Tenterfield" is sometimes incorrectly stated to denote the breed's place of origin. 
2. Rather, it may have derived from a well known breeder. The dog was bred extensively in and around northern New South Wales.
3. Tenterfield is one of many localities in Australia in which small terriers of this type were kept. 
4. The town of Tenterfield is significant in Australian history for the Tenterfield Oration on independence from Britain. 

Additionally, the owner of the town's saddlery a man named George Woolnough, was immortalized by his grandson entertainer Peter Allen as the "Tenterfield Saddler". 

Tenterfield residents attest that Mr. Woolnough owned and loved a number of these terriers,however, photographs of these dogs have not yet been discovered.