Green Hill, Indiana

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Looking west along Pine Street in Green Hill.

Green Hill is a small town in Medina Township, Warren County, Indiana.

1 History
2 Geography
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

The town was platted on March 5, 1832 by William B. Bailey, who named it Milford, for the Delaware village. The plat included 48 lots, two north/south streets (Main and East) and three east/west streets (Pine, Center and Warren). The first store opened in 1833 and was followed in subsequent years by several more businesses, including a liquor store, blacksmith, grocery, tannery, shoe-maker, wagon-maker and others. A post office was established on December 2, 1837 as Poolesville, in honor of the town's first resident physician, Dr. Poole -- it retained the name until August 13, 1904.

In 1869 the citizens of the town voted to incorporate, and renamed it from Milford to Green Hill, owing to the town's Green Hill Seminary which the United Brethren established there. An 1883 history of the area cited Green Hill's population as "over two hundred".

In common with many other small midwestern communities, Green Hill diminished during the 20th century as its rural population dwindled or moved to more urban areas. Current population in undetermined, but satellite photographs provided by Google show perhaps 30 homes in and around the town.

One of Green Hill's most notable natives is NASA astronaut Donald E. Williams, who served as pilot on the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-51-D) in 1985 and as commander of the Atlantis (STS-34) in 1989.

[edit] Geography

Green Hill is located at 40°24'51" North, 87°06'40" West (40.414167, -87.111111), less than a mile from the border with Tippecanoe County. It overlooks Little Pine Creek which flows along its north and west.

[edit] References

Goodspeed, Weston A. (1883), "Towns and Villages of Warren County" in Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana: Historical and Biographical, Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co.
Warren County Historical Society (2002), A History of Warren County, Indiana (175th Anniversary Edition)