Rice Williams Hotel
Troy, Obion County, Tennessee
Information from 1904 Booklet "Town of Troy"

Good .... can be had in private families as well as the hotel, prices ranging from $3.50 to $5.00 per week according to accommodations.  Families living in the city and wishing to spend a part of the summer in the county could not find a more delightful contryside than in and around Troy.  Troy is reached by the Illinois Central R. R., 101 miles north of Memphis, 280 miles south of Louisville and 200 miles east of St. Louis.  All visitors going to Troy should leave the cars at Polk where hacks meet every train to convey passengers over to Troy, a delightful drive of about three miles.  For further information address

J. W. Brantley, Secretary of Troy Realty and Improvement Co.
or
Carroll P. Wilson, Chairman of Committee on Publicity.

These pictures are very old, fragile
and bad quality ... nevertheless, some
of us remember "The Hotel."
John Norton bought the hotel circa 1909.  
And I was born in the front parlor, first room, ground floor, on the right. ... Jane Norton

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