Greenville, MO

GREENVILLE, a post-village, capital of Wayne Co., Missouri, on St. Francis river, 150 miles S. E. from Jefferson City.  (Baldwin's New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States..., 1854)

GREENVILLE   The county seat of Wayne county, St. Francois township, is situated on the east side of the St. Francois river, and was first settled in 1818, under the Spanish colony.  Its chief productions are wheat, corn, rye, oats and tobacco.  Timber, pine, oak, and sugar maple.  Improved land is worth from $6 to $8 per acre, and unimproved $1,25 to $1.50.  Population 100.  County Sheriff, Wm. Toney.  (Missouri State Gazetteer..., 1860)