Hi... Guess maybe I'll start the ball rolling by introducing myself. :) I'm a native of Cowlitz County, and 5th generation to live here. I was raised at Carrolls, as was my mom. She lived on the Columbia at Carrolls on a houseboat. Grandpa was a commercial fisherman there. My great-great-uncle and his mom (my gggrandmother) ran the hotel on the Carrolls waterfront until it burned in the '20s or 30's (I'd have to ask Mom again for the date). They had been there since about the turn of the century. This was when Kelso was a wide spot, Longview hadn't been conceived, and Carrolls was the main stop on the Columbia between Astoria and Portland. Grandma was born and raised at Rockford, a small community in Spokane County south of the city sharing that name. She and her brother came to Carrolls in 1916 when she was 16, traveling by train. (They ran away from home.) Grandpa helped build the Carrolls Store (formerly Carrolls Mercantile). My kin are buried at Rose Valley and Mt. Solo cemeteries. If anyone has questions particulary about Carrolls or Rose Valley (formerly Shanghai), I can probably get 1st-hand answers for you from Mom and friends. shirley :) John Blair wrote: > > Greetings again to our new list members! We are 20 members strong, so want > to encourage you to post or re-post and to advertise however you can that we > have a list up and going. It hasn't made the Rootsweb weekly blitz but > should be coming up soon, which will alert others that we are out there! Am > available to do any cemetary lookups for Bunker Hill, Abernathy, Grasseth, > or Oak Point (all west Cowlitz County). John Blair/listowner > jblair@kalama.com