[2][3] The first settlers in the area arrived in the 1830s to form a community then called Honey Creek, named for 13 beehives along the stream.

In 1835 they built a one-room log schoolhouse on the site of the current Greenfield School on land donated by Reuben Strong, starting out with seven students.

Its style is Romanesque Revival, with hallmarks being the rough stone of the foundation and the round-arched windows and entry door.

[5] At this time, people were becoming aware of some of the shortcomings of one-room schools, and the two rooms let the teachers split the elementary grades by age to provide more age-appropriate instruction.

A few years later, the school added a high school program, with the students studying physics, history, algebra, geometry, grammar, rhetoric, physiology, English history, the Constitution, arithmetic, and some studying bookkeeping and botany.