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9 unusual facts about Greene County


Benjamin Fitzpatrick

Born in Greene County, Georgia, Fitzpatrick was orphaned at the age of seven and was taken by his sister (Celia Fitzpatrick Baldwin) to Alabama in 1815.

Bussey, Iowa

Jesse Bussey, originally from Greene County, Pennsylvania, bought the land for the town of Bussey in 1867.

Halimornis

It lived during the Late Cretaceous about 80 mya and is known from fossils found in the Mooreville Chalk Formation in Greene County, Alabama.

Henry Frederick Werker

From 1967 to 1969, he served as a social services attorney and assistant county attorney for Greene County.

Irene Bedard

Wilson responded by filing 49 motions in Greene County, Ohio, forcing Bedard to return to the state and relinquish her son to Wilson's custody.

James Zehner

Following his time in elected office, Zehner served in the local BMV in Greene County, until retiring in 2010.

Peter Early

Early moved back to Greene County, Georgia after his gubernatorial term, and he was elected to the Georgia Senate to represent his home county.

Stephen A. LaRoque

He represented the state's 10th House district, including constituents in Greene, Lenoir and Wayne counties.

Stuart Struever

The profile of the foundation was raised enormously with its large-scale excavation at the Koster Site in Greene County, Illinois.


Charles O. Paullin

Raised in Greene County, Ohio, Paullin attended Antioch College from 1890 to 1893, but before his graduation transferred for his final year at Union Christian College, Merom, where he took his bachelor of science degree in 1893.

Cromwell Pearce

Cromwell Pearce (along with Thomas Sargeant of Harrisburg, Rees Hill of Greene County, and Samuel McKean of Bradford County) was appointed as an aide de camp to the commander in chief of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

E. B. Teague

During his role as a preacher, he served churches in Selma, Columbiana, Montevallo, Fayetteville, Jefferson County, Greene County, Alabama and LaGrange, Georgia.

George Dovey

At the age of 46, Dovey died of a pulmonary hemorrhage, early in the morning of June 19, 1909 while riding a Pennsylvania Railroad train in Greene County, Ohio, between Cedarville and Xenia.

Jimmy Hickey, Jr.

The previous District 11 senator, the Democrat attorney Robert F. Thompson of Paragould in Greene County in northeastern Arkansas, instead ran successfully in the revised District 20.

John H. Bagley, Jr.

He settled in Catskill, Greene County and engaged in mercantile pursuits and the manufacture of leather.

Monongahela culture

In addition, hundreds of undocumented archeological sites exist in the Dunkard Creek Watershed of Greene County, Pennsylvania and Monongalia County, West Virginia.

North Settlement Methodist Church

North Settlement Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church on County Route 10, east of the junction with County Route 32C in Ashland, New York, Greene County, New York.

Patience and Sarah

Routsong's novel is based on a real-life painter named Mary Ann Willson who lived with her companion Miss Brundage as a "farmerette" in the early 19th century in Greene County, New York.

Roy Vernon Scott

Scott was born to Roy J. Scott and the former Edna Dodson in Wrights, an unincorporated community in Greene County in west-central Illinois.

West Settlement Methodist Church

West Settlement Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church on West Settlement Road at the junction with Cleveland Road in Ashland, Greene County, New York.

William Bell Riley

William Bell Riley (March 22, 1861 in Greene County, Indiana, USA – December 5, 1947 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) was known as "The Grand Old Man of Fundamentalism."


see also

Daily Freeman

In addition to its Uptown Kingston headquarters, the newspaper has offices in Catskill, Greene County; and Rhinebeck, Dutchess County.

Egyptian American

An early Egyptian immigrant is mentioned in the accounts of the Dutch settlers of the Catskill Mountains and recorded in the 1884 History of Greene County, New York.

Greeneville

Greeneville, Tennessee, a municipality in, and the county seat of, Greene County

Greg Hopkins

He received approximately 47 percent of the vote against the district's longtime incumbent legislator, Bill DeWeese, winning in Greene County and losing by small margins in the other counties.

Ilene

Ilene, Indiana, unincorporated community in Washington Township, Greene County, Indiana

Linton, Indiana

The Carnegie Heritage and Arts Center of Greene County is responsible for preserving and maintaining the historic 1908 Margaret Cooper Public Library building (a Carnegie library), which also houses the city's Phil Harris and Alice Faye memorabilia collection.

Quinque

Quinque, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Greene County, United States

Stony Clove

Stony Clove Notch, a narrow pass in the Town of Hunter in Greene County

Tusculum, Tennessee

Chuckey-Doak Middle School and Chuckey-Doak High School are located nearby in Afton also operated by Greene County Public Schools.

Vly

Vly Mountain, a mountain located in the town of Halcott, New York, United States in Greene County