The story so far
Greenville, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Greenville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 7,116 to 9,394 (+32%).
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History · Greenville
15% of Greenville’s homes were built before 1940
Below: 4 old photos and papers, maps from 1947 on, and old-book passages.
0on the National Register
15%homes built before 1940
4old photos & papers
What stands out about Greenville’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Greenville’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Greenville’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.From the old history books
What they wrote about Greenville in 1867
Passages that mention Greenville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
A history of the Minisink Region1867 · page 110Read the page →
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better suited at having paid ten dollars for the military covering of his caput instead of five. , There is an old tradition current among the legends of Minisink and Greenville, that Joseph Brandt in order to acquaint himself with the state of affairs in the Minisink neighborhood, paid it a visit in secret, some time before his second invasion, and remained concealed in a swamp in the present town of Greenville, nearly a
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A history of the Minisink Region1867 · page 159Read the page →
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village of Middletown is said to be built on what was part of his farm, portions of which he donated for church and educational purposes. The first who came to this section located in what is now the town of Greenville, some time during the Revolutionary war. If we are informed rightly it was the "svife of Daniel Green who met with an exciting adventure with the Indians during Brandt's last invasion of the Minisink Region. Her
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Greenville, 1875 to 1976
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1875
In the archiveGreenville (Township); Greenville (Village) - 20th century
- 1947
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey - 1976
In the archiveGreenville Arms
By decade
Greenville, decade by decade
2 decades in the archive, from the 1870s to the 1970s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
1870s2 items
18751970s2 items
19761980s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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2016
2013On the map
Greenville on the map, 1947 to 1979
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Greenville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1947Mt Vernon 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 Greenville.
Then & now
Stand where they stood
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this viewGreenville (Township); Greenville (Village), 1875
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Greenville’s page.
Retake this view · +15Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Greenville’s history
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 Wikimedia Commons (6), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.