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Circa 1800 – The first families arrive from southern England, Old Perlican and Heart’s Content.
1800 – 1801 – John Green is listed as occupying a fishing room during the winter.
1857 - Census reports the population as 63.
1858 – Edgar March and William Brace are listed as a residents.
1860’s (late) – Census reports the first school in Green’s Harbour.
1869 – Edward Simmons is listed as a resident.
1871 – Lovell’s Newfoundland Dictionary lists the following family names : Cooper, Day, Harnum, Hopkins, Houch, Matcher, Penny and Rowe.
1874 - Census reports the population as 302.
1880 – The first Anglican Church is built.
1884 – The first Methodist church is erected as part of the Hant’s Harbour circuit.
1891 – Two schools are operating, one Methodist, and one Church of England. Each denomination maintains separate schools until 1963 – 1964.
1900’s (early) – A number of sawmills are in Old Perlican.
1908 – The old Methodist church is replaced by a building designed and built by James Rowe.
1915 – 1935 - Drover's sawmill is sending dressed lumber to St. John’s. Other mill owners includes Vernon Tayor, Samuel Cooper, Joseph Green, and George and Charles Harnum.
1930 - A store and shipyard are started by Jimmy Green.
1930 (August) – The first Salvation Army meetings are held and the Salvation Army errects a barracks.
1931 – A Salvation Army school opens.
1930’s and 1940’s – A small boom takes place in the saw milling industry.
1955 – A second Salvation Army building is opened.
1960’s – Longliners are employed, and the turbot fishery is discontinued for a time.
1964 – Green’s Harbour Integrated High School opens.
1965 – Eleazer Crocker attempts to build longliners but the industry does not continue for long. The inshore fishery remains significant.
1969 – Green’s Harbour Elementary School opens. Three saw mills are still operating in Green’s Harbour.
1975 – Funds are obtained for a rainbow trout hatchery to be located at nearby Hopeall River.
1975 (May) – Green’s Harbour Historic Church Association is formed to preserve the Methodist church built in 1908 that was threatened with demolition.
1977 – The number of local fishermen drops to about 5 crews.
1982 – Upper Trinity South Development Association slates Green’s Harbour as the area for the regional office. All students attend the two integrated schools opened in 1964 and 1969.
