Interestingly enough, there was no grain elevator at that time. According to Verl Harris, a former resident who lived in Grainton as a child, the town had a hardware store, drug store, grocery store, and a lumberyard in the mid-twenties. The post office was located in the drug store. They also had a doctor. The peak population, according to Perkey's Nebraska Place Names , was 139 in 1930.
Today there are only a number of abandoned buildings remaining where businesses once flurished.
Typical of these buildings is the schoolhouse. At one time this was an impressive two-story brick structure. It is not known if there were ever enough students from the area to fully utilize the building. It looks as if possibly one of the local businesses used part of the old building as a storage area for a time. The building is now in the process of being torn down.