Greenville, Texas

Farm Road 1569 heads west out of Greenville from a junction with highway 69 towards Merit.

Farm Road 1570 (Jack Finney Boulevard) serves the southern parts of the city, particularly the L-3 facility / Majors Field Airport.

== History == Greenville was founded in 1846.

Greenville was notorious for a large sign, installed on July 7, 1921, over Lee Street, the main street in the downtown district, between the train station and the bus station in...

This airport, created in 1942 and initially financed by the local Rotary Club, was used as a training base for P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilots in World War II, and since then ha...

In 1957, Greenville annexed the small town of Peniel, which had been founded in 1899 as a Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene community centered around Texas Holiness University.

The sign thus acquired racial overtones, and the original sign was taken down and placed into storage on April 13, 1965, possibly at the urging of Texas Governor John Connally, ...

In 1968, Greenville's Sybil Maddux had the sign reinstalled, with the wording modified to read "The Greatest People"; the original sign is in the collection of the Audie Murphy ...

Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School Burt Hooton, Major League Baseball pitcher, member of 1981 World Series champion Dodgers V.

"A Texas Town Nervously Awaits a New Neighbor", New York Times, August 21, 2005.