The story
Read it all →How Greene Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Greene Township.
The Portland Mills Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
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History · Greene Township
26% of Greene Township’s homes were built before 1940
Its Register listing is the Portland Mills Bridge. Below: maps from 1963 on and the census since 1890.
1on the National Register
26%homes built before 1940
What stands out about Greene Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Five other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Portland Mills
Bruin's Cross Roads
Parkville
Guion
Milligan
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
GuionMilliganParkeville
Gone or out of use
Dooley StationlocaleNeedmorelocale
10cemeteries and burying grounds inside Greene Township
BlackBruinClodfelterJarvis SmithLaneOld Mount MoriahPhiladelphiaRaccoonSeyboldSpencer
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Greene Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Timeline
Greene Township, 1835 to 1963
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1835Post officeThe Portland Mills post office opens
- 1839Post officeThe Bruin's Cross Roads post office opens
- 1852Post officeThe Parkville post office opens
- 1856
BuiltPortland Mills Bridge is built - 1872Post officeThe Bruin's Cross Roads post office closes
- 20th century
- 1902Post officeThe Parkville post office closes
- 1904Post officeThe Portland Mills post office closes
- 1963
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade
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Greene Township on the map in 1963
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Greene Township.
1963Bellmore sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Greene Township.
On the National Register
1 historic place in Greene Township
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1978
Portland Mills Bridge
Structures
Architectural styles listings
Burr Arch1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
People over time
Greene Township, census by census
Between 413 and 1,126 people in every census since 1890.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Greene Township’s Wikipedia page.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Greene Township
Nobody well known was born in Greene Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
B
Bill NewtonProfessional basketball player · b. 1950
C
Courtland C. GillenAmerican politician · b. 1880Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Greene Township’s history
What is on the National Register in Greene Township?
One place: the Portland Mills Bridge (listed 1978).
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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Sources
Where this page comes from
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.