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Submitted: 5/9/14 • Approved: 5/10/14 • Last Updated: 5/13/14 • R999513-G0-S3
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Submitted by Sue Chambers, 1999
There's a bit of the pioneer in all, and Charles B. Greenwood was no exception. In the late 1880s he was living in Bay Village. Somehow news began to drift into the village about a new frontier on Little River. His interest was aroused, and soon he was one of the homesteaders of this new land. Not satisfied to cut timber, trap and fish, he felt the people needed a town. So he gave the land where Lepanto is today and hired the surveyors to lay out the streets. The Modern News of Harrisburg had a small item in the paper in 1901 stating a new town was being built and was to be Lepanto. Mr. Greenwood also saw the need for a school and he built Greenwood School. His daughter, Miss Dalton, began teaching in a one-room school at the age of 17 and she taught for many years. Needless to say a site for burial was needed and Mr. Greenwood, in looking over his land, selected a spot that he felt would not be easy to overflow, and Greenwood Cemetery was laid out. The first person recorded buried there was Georgia Swepton in 1902, the last one of Pamelia Belle Cradic Savage in 1948.
DIRECTIONS. The Greenwood Cemetery is on the right side of Highway 135 south as you leave Lepanto.
Contributed on 5/9/14 by hawkinsdonna
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