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/3FC.2ACI/3875.2 Message Board Post: From "History of the St. Croix Valley", published in 1909: "They (Samuel and Nathaniel Harriman) built the hotel at Somerset in 1876. Two years previous to this, in 1874, they had started a general store in that township. This store was sold in 1884 to H. A. Lagranduer. " Not much info, but its a start....good luck Pat