Willamette Community Grange Hall front - Corvallis Oregon

Greenberry 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 Benton County,

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, United States. It is located on

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about 8 miles south of Corvallis. Greenberry was a station on the Westside line of the

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(now owned by Portland and Western) named for

Green Berry Smith Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combin ...

, a

pioneer Pioneer commonly refers to a person who is among the first at something that is new to a community. A pioneer as a settler is among the first settling at a place that is new to the settler community. A historic example are American pioneers, perso ...

of 1845 who came with the Meek party and settled in Benton County in 1846. He lived for a time on a farm in the area that bears his name. Smith was usually called Greenberry despite his two given names. Nearby Smith Hill is also named for him.

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Unincorporated communities in Benton County, Oregon Unincorporated communities in Oregon {{BentonCountyOR-geo-stub