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Greenbush is a city in Roseau County in far northwestern Minnesota, near the Canadian border.

The name Greenbush comes from "Sha Ach Wah," the Ojibwe words for spruce tree or green bush.

Scandinavian, Polish and Bohemian settlers arrived in the Greenbush area in the 1880s under the Homestead Act, which granted 160 acres to settlers who built homes and farmed the land.

The original village, now called "Old Greenbush," sat on a ridge that was once a shore of ancient glacial Lake Agassiz; when the Great Northern railroad arrived in 1904, merchants moved their buildings, businesses and all, to the present townsite by rolling them along logs behind horses, staying open during the move.

Greenbush officially became a registered city in 1905 with about 450 people, and volunteers walked roughly 85 miles to Crookston to deliver the incorporation documents.

As of the 2020 census, Greenbush had a population of 682, down from 719 in 2010, when the city had 300 households.

Minnesota State Highways 11 and 32 are the two main arterial routes through Greenbush.

Central Boiler, an outdoor furnace manufacturer founded by Dennis Brazier in his hometown of Greenbush in 1984, has grown there into a manufacturing facility of more than 240,000 square feet, and Greenbush is also the home of Wahl Bros. Racing.

Greenbush's parks include North End Park, Welcome Park, Shanoah Park and Legion Park, and its Oak View Golf Course is a 9-hole, par-35 course lined with mature oaks.