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Greenwood is a small city in Clark County in central Wisconsin, sitting on the banks of the Black River.

Before white settlement, the Greenwood site was a hunting ground shared by the Ojibwe, Menominee and Ho-Chunk peoples, and in 1844 Mormon loggers worked a camp downstream cutting white pine to float downriver for their temple in Nauvoo, Illinois.

Greenwood began as a mill settlement — Van Dusen and Waterman built a mill on the west side of the Black River in 1847 or 1848, the community was briefly called Eatonville, and the village of Greenwood was platted in 1871.

Greenwood was incorporated as a city in 1891, the same year the Wisconsin Central Railroad connected it to Loyal and Marshfield.

By 1918 Greenwood's economy had shifted from lumber to agriculture — the Greenwood Cheese House and Parafining Station coated and shipped the output of surrounding cheese factories, and the steam-powered Greenwood Roller Mills produced flour and feed.

Greenwood has a peace memorial created by sculptor Ernest Durig from an artificial stone made of concrete and fine white sand — unveiled in 1937 and restored in 1982, it stands beside the 1934 City Hall at the corner of Main Street and Division Street.

Greenwood had 1,058 residents at the 2020 census, a small rebound from 1,026 people in 464 households in 2010.

The city covers just 2.86 square miles in the heart of Clark County's dairy country.

Greenwood has produced notable athletes including Cy Buker, who pitched for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and Larry Krause, who played for the Green Bay Packers, and it was also the hometown of Mae Schunk, a former lieutenant governor of Minnesota.