Editing Greenville, Missouri (section)

== History ==
Greenville was named after Fort Greene Ville (now Greenville), Ohio, the site where General [[Anthony Wayne]] signed a [[Treaty of Greenville|treaty]] with the Native Americans after defeating them in the [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]] on August 20, 1794.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RfAuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA371 | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1918 | pages=371}}</ref> This was the final battle of the [[Northwest Indian War]]. Wayne County was named for this military hero and Greenville was named for the place he was most famous for. Incidentally, Fort Greene Ville, Ohio, was named after [[Nathanael Greene]], a friend of Wayne.

In 1826, Greenville flooded. On August 10, 1832, the first post office opened. Confederate [[Brigadier General]] [[William J. Hardee]] and officers [[Patrick Cleburne]], [[Thomas C. Hindman]], and [[Basil W. Duke]] along with about 800 men were stationed close to Greenville near the outset of the Civil War until they began to retreat to [[Randolph County, Arkansas]] on August 28, 1861. On July 20, 1862, a camp of two companies of the 12th [[Missouri State Militia (Union)|Missouri State Militia]] was attacked at daylight, surprising the camp, taking most of their rifles, 16 Savage revolvers, all of their horses, 50 pairs of holster pistols, and killing four of their men.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The War Of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies:[s.n.]|last=United States|first=War Department.|year=1894|location=Washington|pages=166–171}}</ref>

Greenville was incorporated as a village on February 23, 1893. In 1941, the village was relocated two miles to the north after the construction of [[Lake Wappapello]].

[[Old Greenville (23WE637)]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1990.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>