Editing Greencastle, Missouri (section)

==History==
[[Image:GreencastleMO1.jpg|left|thumb|Part of the Greencastle business district in the 1890s.]]
The [[plat]] for Greencastle was surveyed on March 12, 1857, at the behest of Victor Doze, Marion Overstreet, E.E. Prindle, I.E. Wood, and M.P. Wood. It consisted of six full blocks and eight half blocks with each block containing eight lots. The area had been inhabited for some time prior to 1857 however, with the first permanent home built on the present site of Greencastle by Marion Sanders ''circa'' 1853. Moreover, the Greencastle Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1845 and held services just south of the town's later platted location.

The Greencastle post office was established in 1857 with I.E. Wood as first postmaster, followed a short time later by the opening of the new towns' first general store. Greencastle's first grist mill was built in 1879 and a newspaper, the ''Greencastle Independence'' began publication in 1881. It was also in 1881 that Greencastle was finally [[incorporated town|incorporated]] on August 8, 1881. A depot for the [[Burlington Northern Railroad|Quincy, Missouri, and Pacific Railroad]] was built in 1883. A creamery was established in 1885 and produced an average of 1,500 pounds of butter per week.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cdm.sos.mo.gov/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2Fmocohist&CISOPTR=95846&REC=1&CISOBOX=Greencastle|title=History of Adair, Sullivan, Putnam and Schuyler Counties Missouri|publisher=Goodspeed Publishing Company|year=1888|accessdate=2011-07-26}}{{page needed|date=December 2016}}</ref>