This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YW.2ADI/4205.2 Message Board Post: GURNEVILLE, NAMED AFTER THE GUERNE family (and don't call it gurneyville) was one of the several lumber towns on the Russian River. There was, and still is, a celebration in the summers, called STUMPTOWN DAYS. Blowing up stumps seemed the easiest way to remove the stumps to make way for building projects or make a place to pile up the redwood and doug fir lumber that was the product of the lumber mills along the river.