Editing Greenfield, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
The 80 original acres of Greenfield began as the homestead in 1899 of one George Evans.<ref name=Newspaper>{{cite web|url= https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc177688/m1/1/zoom/?q=%22choctaw%20northern%22&resolution=4&lat=5037.257141113282&lon=1145.0286865234366 |title=A Town that Enjoys the Well Wishes of Everybody in the County and State—Visit It|publisher=The Greenfield Hustler, Vol 1, Number 14, June 5, 1913 (accessed The Gateway to Oklahoma History)|accessdate=March 11, 2023}}</ref>  Somewhere in the 1900-1902 timeframe, the [[Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad#Choctaw Northern Railroad|Choctaw Northern Railroad]] built through the area, its line running from [[Geary, Oklahoma]] to its termination at [[Anthony, Kansas]].<ref name=RailroadsCN>{{cite web|url= https://digitalprairie.ok.gov/digital/collection/okresources/id/70291 |title=Choctaw Northern Railroad Company|publisher=Railroads of Oklahoma, June 6, 1870-April 1, 1978 (accessed on Oklahoma Digital Prairie), pp. 42-44|accessdate=March 11, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.frrandp.com/2018/09/railroads-forgot-anthony-ks.html |title=Anthony, Kansas: The Town Forgotten By The Railroads|publisher=Forgotten Railways, Roads & Places, September 7, 2018|accessdate=March 11, 2023}}</ref>  The railroad bought the farm from then-owners T.G. Curtner and J.M. Gray, proceeding to plat the town and sell lots.<ref name=Newspaper/>  By 1913, the town had about 300 inhabitants, a newspaper (The Greenfield Hustler), a bank, a lumberyard, two livery barns, two grain elevators, a grist mill, a hotel, an opera house, and various merchants and contractors.<ref name=Newspaper/>

Greenfield still has freight rail service through the [[AT&L Railroad]].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://racetherail.com/Home.php |title=Race The Rail 2016|publisher=Race the Rail LLC (accessed on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine)|accessdate =March 12, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.odot.org/maps/railroad/2016-2017/RRmap1_2016-17_web.pdf |title=Oklahoma 2018-2020 State Railroad Map|publisher= Oklahoma Department of Transportation|accessdate=March 12, 2023}}</ref>