This farming town was named for William Henry Greenfield, appointed the first postmaster on January 30, 1900.
Now with just a Baptist Church and one business, this small community still owns a rich history. During the early days of Greenfield, there were two hardware stores and four general merchandise stores, a weekly newspaper, "The Greenfield Hustler", two produce houses, a shoe repair shop, two garages, a filing station and a trucking company. There were two busy elevators, two cotton gins, several cafes and a bank.
May Stewart tells in "Their Story: A Pioneer Days Album of the Blaine County Area" that there was a holdup and all the employees and some customers were locked up in the vault. Her dad, J.F. Awtrey, was in the bank making a deposit and got locked up too, along with Bill Baker and others of the bank staff.
There was a thriving drug store, plus the town had a doctor. There was a movie theater, three churches, Nazarene, Presbyterian, and Baptist. Greenfield had its own phone company. May Stewart reports that Mrs. Wetherbee was the operator much of the time. If you called her and asked to get in touch with anyone, she kept that phone ringing till she found them and told them to call home.
About five miles east of Greenfield is the grave of Jesse Chisholm, a guide, scout, interpreter and trader. In 1932 the Oklahoma history class of Greenfield went to his burial place and erected a monument.
The first railroad in Greenfield was built in 1901. There were two freight trains and four passenger trains which arrived at nine o'clock in the morning and at one, two and seven o'clock in the afternoon. Because there was no depot agent, people had to flag the train.
Soon after 1905, the first school house was built in Greenfield with 12 students attending. Classes were conducted only in January, February and March. Mrs. White who rode horseback every day from Watonga was paid $50. A home was used as the second school building. Later, a four-room school building was built on top of the hill. In 1921 a brick bulding was built that served as Greenfield's high school and a grade school building was built in 1930. Greenfield school went out in 1991, but Greenfield still has an active alumni association.