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==History== Green City traces its beginnings to April, 1880 when Sullivan County farmer Henry Pfeiffer commissioned surveyor Thomas J. Dockery to lay out the town in what had previously been a cornfield. The town plat consisted of fifty lots, each 60-by-130 feet. The impetus for the town was the Quincy, Missouri & Pacific railway, which laid tracks close by in the early 1880s. A rail depot was built with donations from area farmers, and in 1881 C. B. Comstock built a store and warehouse. Around the same time a small frame building was moved from the nearby village of Kiddville by S.H. Davis who used it as a post office when he became Green City's first postmaster.<ref name="Sullivan County History-Green City">{{cite web|url=http://www.sullivancountymissouri.com/greencity.html|title=Sullivan County History-Green City|publisher=Sullivan County Missouri.com/Bill Sterling|date= |accessdate=2011-07-12}}</ref> Green City was officially incorporated on February 10, 1882. Green City, Missouri, is the site of Widmark Airport ([[FAA LID]]: MO83). Towns the size of Green City, whose population numbered only 688 inhabitants in 2000, usually do not have airports, but [[Richard Widmark]] owned a cattle ranch in the area during the 1950s and 1960s. Widmark contributed funds to the construction of an airport which led to its being named in his honor. [[Green City Presbyterian Church]] and [[Green City Railroad Depot]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> ===Notable events=== * May 25, 1885 β Green City College is established. A large three-story brick building was constructed at a cost of $4,500. The first classes were held October 13, 1883 with thirteen students enrolled. By the end of the first term the number had increased to thirty-three, and the second years enrollment totaled eighty. A one-year college preparatory program comprising four terms was offered as well as a full four-year collegiate program.<ref>''History of Adair, Sullivan, Putnam and Schuyler Counties'' by The Goodspeed Publishing Co., Chicago, 1888.</ref> * June 24, 1918 - A large tornado passed just to the north of Green City. The town proper was spared much damage, however seven people were killed and at least a dozen more injured in the rural areas near the town. Considerable property damage to rural homes and farms also resulted.<ref>''The Green City Press''. 6 July 1972.</ref> * November 5, 1931 β A large fire destroyed much of the east side of the Green City town square. A total of four buildings, housing at least six businesses and the City Hall, were a complete loss. The only building left standing was that which housed the Bank of Green City and the Green City Hotel.<ref name="Sullivan County History-Green City"/> * March 26, 1931 β Noted bank robber and "gangster" [[Fred Burke|Fred "Killer" Burke]] was apprehended near Green City. He had been living there for some time under an assumed name.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/id91.htm|title=Fred "Killer" Burke|publisher=My Al Capone Museum|date= |accessdate=2011-07-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.truman.edu/scpublications/Chariton%20Collector/Spring%201981/Gangster%20Connections.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060913135234/http://library.truman.edu/scpublications/Chariton%20Collector/Spring%201981/Gangster%20Connections.pdf |archive-date=2006-09-13 |url-status=live|title=Gangster Connections|publisher=The Chariton Collector|date=Spring 1981 |accessdate=2011-07-09}}</ref>
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