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History · Greenbush

Greenbush’s post office opened in 1909, and 19% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: 3 old photos and papers and maps from 1957 on.

1909first post office
0on the National Register
19%homes built before 1940
3old photos & papers
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From Greenbush’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Greenbush began

When was Greenbush founded?

1909

The Greenbush post office opened in 1909, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 224117 years
Founding year: the first Greenbush post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Greenbush’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 3 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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Start Greenbush’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Greenbush’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo1 archive item has no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewHill Farm, Hunting Creek, Accomack Coun…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Greenbush, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Greenbush yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Greenbush is a census-designated place (CDP) in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 224. Hills Farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

Its first post office opened in 1909. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 220 in 2010, 224 in 2020.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Greenbush, 1909 to 1957

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1909Post officeThe Greenbush post office opens
  3. 1930In the archiveHill Farm, Hunting Creek, Accomack County, Virginia
  4. 1957On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Greenbush, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1930s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1930s2 items
Hill Farm, Hunting Creek, Accomack County, Virginia1930Hill Farm, Hunting Creek, Accomack County, VirginiaHill Farm, Hunting Creek, Accomack County, Virginia1930Hill Farm, Hunting Creek, Accomack County, Virginia
1940s–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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Date unknown1 to date
Bull House, State Route 764Date?Bull House, State Route 764
On the map

Greenbush on the map, 1957 to 1978

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Greenbush. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Greenbush on the 1957 USGS mapGreenbush on the 1968 USGS mapGreenbush on the 1978 USGS map1957Accomac sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Greenbush.

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.

Hill Farm, Hunting Creek, Accomack County, Virginia
Retake this viewHill Farm, Hunting Creek, Accomack County, Virginia, 1930

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Greenbush’s page.

Retake this view · +15
Famous people

Famous people close to Greenbush

Nobody well known was born in Greenbush itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Henry A. WiseUnited States Congressman and governor of Virgi… · b. 1806
Charles I. StengleAmerican politician · b. 1869
Thomas H. B. BrowneAmerican politician · b. 1844
Edward Southey JoynesAmerican scholar · b. 1834
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Josh NolzAmerican soccer player · b. 1980
B
Barbara Bohannan-SheppardAmerican politician · b. 1950

Questions about Greenbush’s history

What year was Greenbush founded?

The Greenbush post office opened in 1909, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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 Library of Congress (3), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.