Historic Greenville

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For nearly 150 years, a small town named Greenville thrived here on the bank of the St. Francis River. As a frontier town, as county seat of Wayne County, and later as a lumber and railroad town, the community that existed here was a commercial and political center for the region.

In 1941, a flood control project for the St. Francis River known as the Wappapello Dam was completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The resulting lake level necessitated the relocation of the town of Greenville to its present site, two miles northeast of its original position.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenville,_Missouri
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Coordinates:   37°5'30"N   90°27'8"W
This article was last modified 19 years ago