Add YOUR Family To This Page

  History of Greenville, Rhode Island, USA

Journey back in time to Greenville, Rhode Island, USA

Visit Greenville, Rhode Island, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• 1822 - Smithfield Exchange Bank built in Greenville
  
  
  
• 1824 - Temple Lodge, No. 18, F. & A. M., was instituted Aug. 24, 1824.
  First officers were: W. M., Moses Aldrich; S. W., Reuben Mowry; J. W., Emor Olney; Treas., Thomas R. Eddy; Sec'y Zephaniah Keach. Present...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1826 - The first building erected and expressly devoted to public worship, was that known as the Baptist Church in Greenville.
  The lower room in the old academy had previously been used for religious purposes, and thus continued until the erection of the church edifice in...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1851 - Passing Counterfeit Bills
  In the Police Court this afternoon, Solomon T. Dolbear was examined upon a charge of passing two counterfeit ten dollar bills, one on the Farmers'...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1851 - Saint Thomas Episcopal Church and Rectory built in Greenville
  This church is situated at Greenville, and was erected in 1851, on land given by Resolved Waterman. The first meeting of the parish bears date Feb....Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1854 - Greenville
  Greenville, a post-village in Providence county, Rhode Island, 12 miles N. W. from Providence, contains a bank.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
  
•  1890 - Famous Tree Gone
  Another famous tree has fallen before the woodmans axe. It was a huge chestnut, nine feet and four inches in diameter, and stood on the old Elder...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1895 - Greenville
  Greenville, a post-village of Providence co., R.I., 8 or 9 miles W.N.W. of Providence. It has a national bank, 3 churches, 2 cotton-mills, and a...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 
  National Exchange and Smithfield Savings Bank, Greenville, R.I.
  Postcard
  
• 
  Free Public Library, Greenville, R. I.
  Postcard
  
• 
  Old Stage Coach
  Centredale, Greenville and Harmony, R.I.
  Postcard
  
• 
  School House
  Postcard
  
• 
  Greenville Finishing Company
  Postcard
  
• 
  Waterman's Reservoir
  Postcard
  
• 1916
  Greenville, a banking post-village of Providence co., R.I., 8 miles WNW. of Providence. It has woollen- and lumber-mills. Pop. about 800.
  Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher
  
  
•