The Greenbank’s Hollow Historic Park Site Nears Completion
By Sharon Lakey
On a rainy October day, 2011, Dave Houston and Hollis Prior, committee heads for the Greenbank’s Hollow Historical Park, met a busload of Danville second graders at the covered bridge. The children lined both sides under cover of the bridge, eating bagged lunches, and listening to the constant rush of water rolling down Joe’s Brook. Afterwards, they trekked up the hill after David and Hollis to the old school site where the new kiosk stands.
One of the children exclaimed, “My daddy gave the wood for this.” The impressive structure was newly up by the efforts of the Danville road crew, the area groomed and landscaped, surrounded by the foundation stones of the old school. No information was on the kiosk yet, but the whole idea of group of children standing in the middle of the schoolhouse site was historic in itself. After some conversation and questions about its history, the group again fell in behind David and Hollis and moved down to the bridge. There they stood on the spot, imagining the huge five-story woolen mill that used to stand next to the little bridge.