Green Acres, Coos County, Oregon

{{Short description| Unincorporated community in the state of Oregon, United States}}

{{Other places|Green Acres, Oregon (disambiguation){{!}}Green Acres, Oregon}}

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Green Acres (or Greenacres) is an unincorporated community in Coos County, Oregon, United States, east of Oregon Route 42 between Coos Bay and Coquille. It is near the southernmost point of the Isthmus Slough of Coos Bay.

The area that is now Green Acres was a {{convert|700|acre|km2|adj=on}} farm homesteaded by master shipbuilder John Kruse, a Danish immigrant, in the late 19th century.{{cite journal |url= http://www.wholeshebang.com/ShipbuilderJohnKruse.htm |title= A Look Back at Shipbuilder John Kruse |date= September 1997 |author= Koppy, Ann |work= The Whole Shebang! |accessdate= 2009-12-24 |archive-date= August 29, 2004 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20040829053116/http://www.wholeshebang.com/ShipbuilderJohnKruse.htm |url-status= dead }} Kruse was best known for building the Western Shore, a three-masted wooden clipper ship that was one of the largest tall ships ever built on the West Coast of the United States.{{cite web |url= http://www.cooshistory.org/coos-historical-maritime-museum-research-aids-1899.htm |title= A Selective Chronology of South Coast History: Origins to 1899 |publisher= Coos Historical & Maritime Museum |accessdate= 2009-12-24 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110725195626/http://www.cooshistory.org/coos-historical-maritime-museum-research-aids-1899.htm |archive-date= 2011-07-25 |url-status= dead }} She set several speed records.

Today the community has a Grange hall,{{cite news |url= http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2005/04/28/news/news05.txt |title= Grange invites community to open house |work= The World |date= April 28, 2005 |accessdate= 2009-12-24}} a volunteer fire department,{{cite news |url= http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2007/09/27/news/doc46fbed4f3a19f946703780.txt |title=

Greenacres fire district celebrates 50th anniversary |date= September 27, 2007 |author= Rich, Alexander |work= The World |accessdate= 2009-12-24}} and a community church.{{cite web |url= http://www.oregonsbayarea.org/visitorsinfo/coos-bay-north-bend-charleston-churches.htm |title= Churches |publisher= Bay Area Chamber of Commerce |accessdate= 2009-12-24}} The community formerly had a school in the Coos Bay School District that closed in 1985.{{cite gnis |id= 1121368 |name= Green Acres School (historical) |entrydate= November 28, 1980 |accessdate= 2009-12-24}}{{cite news |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gWgVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=c-EDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3167,7610924&dq=coos+closed+green-acres+%7C+greenacres+school&hl=en |title= Five rural schools in Coos Bay area shut down |date= October 31, 2009 |work= The Register-Guard |accessdate= 2009-12-24}} Green Acres is also home to the Noble Creek Fish Hatchery.{{cite web |url= http://www.oregonwild.org/about/press-room/press-clips/impact-of-fishery-closure-extends-beyond-the-coast |title= Impact of fishery closure extends beyond the coast |author= Chambers, Susan |work= The World |publisher= Oregon Wild |date= November 6, 2006 |accessdate= 2009-12-24 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110103071457/http://www.oregonwild.org/about/press-room/press-clips/impact-of-fishery-closure-extends-beyond-the-coast |archive-date= January 3, 2011 |url-status= dead }}