Editing Greenville, Iowa (section)

==History==
The Greenville post office opened in 1871. The town was named after its first postmaster, A. W. Green.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/historyofclaycou00gill | title=History of Clay County, Iowa: From Its Earliest Settlement to 1909 | publisher=S. J. Clarke Publishing Company | author=Gillespie, Samuel | year=1909 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofclaycou00gill/page/62 62]}}</ref>

===Bank robbery of 1901===
On November 16, 1901, a Mr. Brown opened the bank in Greenville and discovered that the bank had been robbed; the vault handle had been removed, explosives placed into the opening, and the vault door blown off.

Three men were seen later in [[Spencer, Iowa|Spencer]], then [[Webb, Iowa|Webb]], and finally [[Albert City, Iowa|Albert City]], where they were cornered at the [[train station]]. A gunfight ensued, during which one of the gunmen was killed. The other two were captured and later sentenced to life terms in the [[Iowa State Penitentiary]] in [[Fort Madison, Iowa|Fort Madison]], while the dead gunman was buried in an unmarked grave in Fairfield Cemetery in Albert City. Sixty-four empty shell casings were picked up in the depot after the gun fight.<ref>[http://www.albertcity.com/History.htm History of Albert City]</ref>