Pickering of Past and Present

Green River - Then and Now. Photograph (copy). Circa 1882. George Dunbar Collection, Pickering Local History Collection. 2007-00023. Settled in the 1840s as ‘Smithville’, named after the mill owner, was a busy community by the late 1880s. The original General store in Green River, run by the Burton family, is now a used book store. The hamlet is located at the beginning of the Seaton Hiking Trail.