The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Green City traces its beginnings to April, 1880 when Sullivan County farmer Henry Pfeiffer commissioned surveyor Thomas J. Dockery to lay out the town in what had previously been a cornfield. The town plat consisted of fifty lots, each 60 by 130 feet. The impetus for the town was the Quincy, Missouri & Pacific Tailway, which laid tracks close by in the early 1880s. A rail depot was built with donations from area farmers, and in 1881 C. B. Comstock built a store and warehouse. Around the same time a small frame building was moved from the nearby village of Kiddville by S.H. Davis who used it as a post office when he became Green City's first postmaster. Green City was officially incorporated on February 10, 1882.
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2 places in Green are on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
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