Kevin: Rainier is a very small place at this time with several old buildings that could have been a hotel. The whole town at this time consists of a main street with some 10 old buildings only. If you will look at Switchboard or 411 for some of your names, you might find those names still there. If you would call information for the City Hall in Rainier WA, you could probably have a very interesting conversation with the few people in that office. They have one police car so I know they have some kind of city administration. They are some 15 miles east of Tenino and only 7 miles west of Yelm, a wonderful country community. Rainier is some 15 miles east of Lacey which is North of Olympia a few miles, really off the beaten path. Norma -----Original Message----- From: MR KEVIN D BOERS <kevin_boers@prodigy.com> To: PSRoots-L@rootsweb.com <PSRoots-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 12:41 PM Subject: Ranier Hotel - Thurston County. WA >I recently was given information that my Great Grandparents Millard >Preston Thornton (1859-1940) & Sylvia Etta Robbins (1869-1932) >ran/owned a hotel in Ranier, WA (in Thurston County) in the early >1900's. >My Grandother Edith Gertrude Thornton (1890-1968) worked there until >she got >married in 1910 to Esrael Augustus Noble. Her parents were very >upset with her for leaving the hotel and her brother Verne Prescott >Thornton (1904-1998) did not like his new brother-in-law and threw >rocks at them all the way to the train station. Does anyone have >information on this hotel or any of the family I've mentioned. > >Thanks for your assistance. > >Kevin Boers >Mill Creek, WA > >