Green Acres (or Greenacres) is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Coos County,

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, United States, east of

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between

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and Coquille. It is near the southernmost point of the Isthmus Slough of

. The area that is now Green Acres was a farm homesteaded by master shipbuilder

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, a Danish immigrant, in the late 19th century. Kruse was best known for building the '' Western Shore'', a three-masted wooden

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ship that was one of the largest

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s ever built on the

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. She set several speed records. Today the community has a Grange hall, a

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, and a community church. The community formerly had a school in the Coos Bay School District that closed in 1985. Green Acres is also home to the Noble Creek Fish Hatchery.

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