George Grennell Jr’s House

This is Grennel's second house, of which he made in 1846 at 500 Main St, where we are now.

In 1808, George Grennell graduated from Dartmouth College with high honors. Grennell studied law at Dartmouth and became a prominent lawyer and president of the Greenfield-Troy Railroad. Grennell was a Massachusetts state senator from 1824-1827 and a member of Congress from 1832-1838. He was also a Register of Probate from 1849-1853 and a Clerk of Courts from 1854-1861.

Grennell owned much of the land that is in the current High Street and Spring Terrace area of Greenfield spanning the area of both of his houses.

In 1811, Grennell gave a 4th of July speech in Northampton, MA. In his speech, he accused Thomas Jefferson of being anti-business and claimed that the Revolution had been fought primarily “to establish an extensive foreign commerce, on a secure and liberal basis”.  

In the election of 1830 for US Representative, Greenfield gave all 115 votes to Republican candidate George Grennell Jr. and 0 votes to the anti-masonic Israel Billings.  

In 1877 at the age of 87, George Grennell Jr. died peacefully in his sleep.

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