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Renton, Washington

The village of Renton was founded as a farming site by Erasmus M. Smithers who discovered coal there and brought in Charles D. Shattuck as coal mine operator.
The community was named for William Renton, an organizer of local coal operations.
With 82,500 people, Renton is a growing city with major industries like Boeing and
Kenworth being major employers. Recently Boeing has sold a parcel of its land to the city for an "urban village" center called The Landing. With many new residential and commercial buildings it promises to keep Renton in the forefront of urban development in the Seattle area.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renton,_Washington

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Renton, Washington, Ivan (guest) wrote 5 years ago:

https://www.rentonschools.us/employment/where-is-renton-wa
Renton, Washington, Ivan (guest) wrote 5 years ago:

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Renton, Washington, Ivan (guest) wrote 5 years ago:

Renton is a city in King County, Washington, and a suburb of Seattle. Situated 11 miles (18 km) southeast of downtown Seattle, Renton straddles the southeast shore of Lake Washington, at the mouth of the Cedar River. After a long history as an important salmon fishing area for Native Americans, Renton was first settled by people of European descent in the 1860s. Its early economy was based on coal mining, clay production, and timber export. Today, Renton is best known as the final assembly point for the Boeing 737 family of commercial airplanes, but it is also home to a growing number of well known manufacturing, technology, and healthcare organizations, including Boeing Commercial Airplanes Division, Paccar, Kaiser Permanente, IKEA, Providence Health & Services, UW Medicine, and Wizards of the Coast. As of 2019, the population of Renton is estimated at 101,751,[6] up from 90,927 at the 2010 census. Renton is currently the eighth-largest city in Washington and the fourth-largest in King County. Since 2008, the National Football League's Seattle Seahawks have had a training facility in Renton, the Virginia Mason Athletic Center (VMAC),[7] which is the second-largest facility in the NFL at 200,000 square feet (19,000 m2).
Cemetery Road, local (guest) wrote 8 years ago:

Yep. It's known as Cemetery Road, especially to people who were born here.
737 Final Assembly Building, aaa1 wrote 9 years ago:

4-81 & 4-82 buildings