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Greenwood, Wise County, Texas

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As the town of Greenwood began to grow, businesses, churches, a cemetery, school, and masonic lodge were established. A Post Office was opened in 1877, and a town well was dug by John Karr Berry in the early 1890s. At its peak, the town boasted two saloons, four grocery stores, two drug stores, a
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This small settlement has served as a supply center for surrounding farming communities for over one hundred years. It has also been a center of social and religious activities. Three churches serve the Greenwood area: Greenwood Baptist Church, founded as Hart's Creek Missionary Baptist Church
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hotel, bank, hardware store, barber shop, blacksmith shop, cotton gin, and the Greenwood Gazette Newspaper, the Greenwood Male and Female College, although in operation for less than twenty years, provided quality education for the young people of the community.
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Pioneer settlers came to this area as early as the 1850s. Local tradition states that the Greenwood and Hart families were among the first settlers in the area, and that the community was named for the Greenwood family and the Creek for the Hart family.
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about 1872, Greenwood Methodist Church, founded about 1880, and Greenwood Church of Christ, founded in 1896.
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1988 Texas Historical Commission plaque information located at the Greenwood U. S. Post Office and Town Well
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unincorporated community
Wise County
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Slidell Independent School District
"Greenwood, Wise County, Texas"
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Wise County, Texas
County seat
Decatur
Cities
Aurora
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Chico
Decatur
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Lake Bridgeport
New Fairview
Newark
Paradise
Rhome
Runaway Bay
Springtown
Towns
Alvord
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