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History · Greenwood

23% of Greenwood’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Saint Ann's Catholic Church and Cemetery. Below: 1 old photo or paper and maps from 1979 on.

1on the National Register
23%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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From Greenwood’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Greenwood’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 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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Start Greenwood’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 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 viewHemlock Bridge, Spanning Black River on…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story

How Greenwood came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Greenwood.

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Most of the edges of the six by six squares that would become Greenwood were surveyed in October 1861 by a crew working for the U.S. government. In early 1862, the same crew marked all the section corners in the township, walking through the woods and swamps, measuring with chain and compass. When done, the deputy surveyor filed this general description for the western six by six square:

The surface of this Township is level and the soil good - well adapted for agricultural purposes. The Timber is large, among which is scattering White Pine of a Superior quality.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Greenwood, 1887 to 1979

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1887Post officeThe Interwald post office opens
  3. 1888BuiltSaint Ann's Catholic Church and Cemetery is built
  4. 20th century
  5. 1934Post officeThe Interwald post office closes
  6. 1979On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Greenwood, decade by decade

Date unknown1 to date
Hemlock Bridge, Spanning Black River on Warner DriveDate?Hemlock Bridge, Spanning Black River on Warner Drive
Today1 recent
St Annes Church Chelsea Wisconsin2010St Annes Church Chelsea Wisconsin
On the map

Greenwood on the map, 1979 to 1980

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

Greenwood on the 1979 USGS mapGreenwood on the 1980 USGS map1979Rib River Lookout Tower 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 Greenwood.

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.

Hemlock Bridge, Spanning Black River on Warner Drive
Retake this viewHemlock Bridge, Spanning Black River on Warner Drive

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

Retake this view · +15
On the National Register

1 historic place in Greenwood

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
1995
Saint Ann's Catholic Church and Cemetery
Saint Ann's Catholic Church and Cemetery, built 1888
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Gothic Revival1
Saint Ann's Catholic Church and CemeteryGothic Revival · Built 1888

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Greenwood

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

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Dennis MorganAmerican actor · b. 1908
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Jeane DixonAmerican astrologer and psychic · b. 1904
Charles WinningerActor · b. 1884
Jay LeggettAmerican actor, improvisational comedian, produ… · b. 1963
Mike WebsterAmerican football player · b. 1952
Jack PerkinsActor · b. 1921
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Another post office, Interwald, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Interwald
Gone or out of use
Buddy SchoolschoolGreen Grove SchoolschoolHighland SchoolschoolSunny Knoll Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Greenwood
Saint AnnSaint Peters Lutheran

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Rib LakeIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townChelseaIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBrowningIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGoodrichIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCorningIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWestboro1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Greenwood’s history

What is on the National Register in Greenwood?

One place: the Saint Ann's Catholic Church and Cemetery (listed 1995).

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 (1), the Library of Congress (1), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, 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.