Community Services

Greenville has that "little something" extra that makes you feel at home- whether you're relocating or just visiting!

• Library
• Parks & Playgrounds
• Museum
• Media
• Day Care
• Senior Citizen Programs
• Churches

Library

The W. Walworth Harrison Public Library has something for everyone. Books, magazines, video and audio tapes, and films are housed in a bright, modern, free form building in the city's Ja-Lu Municipal Park. Researchers from all over the country make use of the library's superior genealogy and local history collection. Computer stations, a CD ROM reference library, and planned Internet access add to the library's wide variety of resources. The children's library includes a story time pavilion and two computers loaded with programs just for kids.
W. Walworth Harrison Public Library 4807 Stonewall St., Greenville, Texas 75401, (903) 457-2992

Parks

City of Greenville parks, scattered throughout the city, offer grassy, shade-dappled picnic areas. Several parks have lighted ball fields, soccer fields, or tennis courts. There is also a jogging/exercise trail, a sand volleyball court, basketball court, and fishing lake. The Ja-Lu recreational swimming pool is a fun place to cool off on a hot summer day. The water slide, handicapped area, wading beach, lap pool, and play features for young children make the pool accessible to swimmers of all ages and levels of accomplishment. YMCA swimming classes, family nights, season passes, and private party reservations welcome everyone to the pool.

Click here for a park list

Aunt Char’s Kid Zone is more than a playground. The football field-size complex in the center of the Greenville SportsPark is a creative playground with equipment and structures for imagination building play for kids of all ages.

Museum

The Audie Murphy/ American Cotton Museum interprets the cultural, social, and economic history of cotton. The fluffy fiber was Texas' number one export item for much of the19th century. Our rich blackland prairie soil grew a premium crop that made Greenville the site of a prosperous cotton industry.

The museum, on Interstate 30, tracks cotton production from farming through ginning and processing. The story of cotton's impact from its introduction as a cash crop in the 1800s to present day uses for cotton - both locally and nationally - unfolds chapter by chapter inside the museum's walls.

The Audie Murphy exhibit celebrates World War II's most decorated soldier, a Hunt County native. Photos, biographies, uniforms, and reproductions of his medals tell the story of the sharecropper's son who left home to become a national hero.

Traveling exhibits, local history displays, weekly luncheon programs, historical tours, and summer programs for youngsters make history come alive at the American Cotton Museum.

The Audie Murphy /American Cotton Museum 600 I-30, Greenville, Texas 75402, (903) 450-4502

Media

Greenville has a daily newspaper, the Greenville Herald Banner, with a circulation of 11,500 as well as a weekly paper, the Kuumba Heritage News. Two radio stations with a total of three airwaves, KGVL, KIKT and KEMM, broadcast the latest in news, sports and weather, as well as offering a variety of music.

Click here for a list of Chamber member media outlets.

Day Care

There are nine day care facilities in the Greenville area licensed to accommodate more than 900 children. Click here for a list of Chamber member child care centers.

Senior Citizen Programs

The Senior Citizens Center provides meeting space, meals and social activities for Greenville seniors.
Senior Citizens Center, 3720 O’Neal St., (903) 454-1444

The Hunt County Committee on Aging provides referrals, medical transportation, home delivered and congregate meals, nutrition services, case management, benefits counseling, commodity distribution and outreach for the homebound. The Connection low-cost transportation service offers rides for shopping, meetings, etc.(service not limited to seniors).
Hunt County Committee on Aging, 3720 O’Neal St., (903) 454-1444

Churches

More than 75 local churches provide worship and fellowship for 25 denominational groups. For a complete listing, see the churches in Greenville page.