The site of the town of Millville was originally possessed by William and Elizabeth McMean. This tract was the largest in the county held by a single individual. Benjamin Chew, a prominent citizen of Philadelphia secured successive warrants at various dates for surveys in the Green creek valley and eventually became owner of a tract the area of which approximated two thousand acres. It was during this early period of the political organization of Northumberland county that Greenwood valley ceased to be public land, and received its first white inhabitants. The larger portions of the township of that name, and of Jackson, were embraced in the boundaries of Greenwood as originally defined in 1799 previous to that date, the region was included in Fishingcreek, and still earlier in the extensive township of Wyoming. In a strictly topographical sense the name is applied to a valley extending east and west between these streams from the hills of Pine and Jackson to the more regular elevations at the south, known as the Mount Pleasant hills. GREENWOOD, one of the original subdivisions of the county, and the fourth in order of time erected within its present limits, embraces an area of considerable extent between Little Fishing and Green creeks. History of Columbia and Montour Counties, Pennsylvania
Montour Counties, Pennsylvania Chapter XII - Greenwood and Jackson Townships Chapter XII, Greenwood and Jackson Townships, History of Columbia and
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