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Greenville was founded in 1844 by John Green, who built a sawmill on the Flat River; the settlement was named for its founder, platted in 1853, incorporated as a village in 1867 and as a city in 1871.

Greenville is the most populous city in Montcalm County, even though the county seat is Stanton.

The 2020 census counted 8,816 people in Greenville, living in 3,637 households.

Greenville is the birthplace of the Meijer supermarket chain: Dutch immigrant Hendrik Meijer, who first worked as a barber, opened his first grocery store in Greenville in 1934 during the Great Depression, and his son Fred Meijer was a Greenville native.

Greenville has a strong Danish heritage from its early Danish settlers, celebrated at the Danish Festival held every third weekend of August, and a copy of Copenhagen's Little Mermaid statue on the banks of the Flat River once drew a copyright lawsuit from the heirs of sculptor Edvard Eriksen.

Greenville was known as the Refrigerator Capital of the World, a title dating to the Ranney Refrigerator Company in 1892 and continued through Gibson, Frigidaire and Electrolux plants, until Electrolux closed its Greenville plant in early 2006 and moved production to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, affecting about 2,700 jobs.

Greenville schoolchildren raised the money to buy the Fighting Falcon, the lead glider aircraft of Operation Overlord on D-Day, and the Fighting Falcon Museum now occupies the 1902 Cass Street School.

The eight-mile Fred Meijer Flat River Trail connects Greenville's major parks, and the city is also a terminus of the 41-mile Fred Meijer Heartland Trail to Alma.

The Flat River flows through Greenville on its way south to join the Grand River at Lowell.

Three lakes - Baldwin, Manoka and Como - lie within the Greenville city limits, and Baldwin Lake has a public beach.