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Greenback is an incorporated city in Loudon County, Tennessee, part of the Knoxville metropolitan statistical area, with the motto "Small Town, Big Heart."

Greenback was founded in 1883 and incorporated in 1957, with Glenn McTeer as its first mayor.

The name Greenback traces to Lorenzo Thompson, who opened Thompson's Stand general store nearby in 1876 and, when he applied for a post office in 1882 and names such as "Thompson's Station" were rejected, chose "Greenback," inspired by local Greenback Party politician Jonathan Tipton.

The area's earlier roots reach back to Morganton Ferry, originally Wear's Ferry, on the Little Tennessee River, and to the community of Morganton, which was chartered in 1813.

In the late 1880s the Knoxville Southern Railroad built toward Blue Ridge, Georgia, and developers laid out a town near the Morganton Road crossing, first called "Allegheny" after a resort hotel.

A depot was built in Greenback in 1891, and the railroad renamed the station Greenback in 1897.

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad's Greenback Depot, completed in 1914, still stands, now serves as a community events center, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

The Greenback Drug Company building, opened in 1923, still operates as a community diner that locals call "the drugstore."

A cave in the Greenback area and the William H. Griffitts House are believed to have been stops on the Underground Railroad.

Six major fires destroyed more than half of Greenback's 34 pre-Depression commercial buildings, and residents later built the town's community center entirely themselves with no outside funding, completing it in 1978; it now houses the library, city hall, and recreation facilities.