Greenwood is a historic home located near

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. It was built about 1820, and is a two-story, three-bay, timber frame Federal style

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with a side gable roof. It has a center-passage plan, a raised basement, and two exterior-end chimneys. The

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style front entry porch has brick piers supporting a one-story wooden porch with a gable roof and triangular pediment supported by square paired columns. A one-bay, single-pile timber-frame wing addition, built about 1850. Also on the property are a contributing outbuilding, well, and the grave of Mary Roberta Macon who died at age nine in 1847. an
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in 1992.

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