page_title: Greenville, New Hampshire
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Greenville, New Hampshire / History
caption_attribution_description: Zoom into this map at maps.bpl.org. Author: Burleigh, L. R. Publisher: L.R. Burleigh Date: 1886 Location: Greenville (N.H.) Scale: Not drawn to scale. Call Number: G3744.G77A3 1886.B87
context_page_description: Greenville is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 2,105 at the 2010 census.
  It is located at the junction of New Hampshire routes 31, 45, and 123.
context_section_description: Once a part of Mason called "Mason Village", Greenville is one of the state's newest and smallest towns, incorporated in 1872. It is located at the High Falls on the Souhegan River, whose plentiful water power provided the mill town with the state's first industries, making cotton and woolen goods. Because of the falls, Greenville was always a manufacturing center. The Columbian Manufacturing Company was established in 1826 to make textiles in both Greenville and New Ipswich. The Columbian is long gone, but its fine brick buildings still dominate the village, kept company by Queen Anne style houses on side streets. The mills are now used for other businesses and storage, and one has been converted into housing for the elderly.
  Greenville once had a Boston & Maine Railroad trestle. Before it was dismantled for safety reasons, local residents turned out one sunny afternoon to watch Bronson Potter, Mason resident and inventor, fly a private airplane underneath the span on a wager. The railroad depot, which still stands, was once an important landmark that put the tiny towns of Mason and Greenville "on the map." It has since been turned into a Chinese restaurant and lounge.
caption: Print of Greenville from 1886 by L.R. Burleigh with a list of landmarks as well as an inset facsimile of an 1847 rendering of Mason Village
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