Greens Basin

[Lakegeezer]

Originally Posted by webmaster

I was looking into Greens Basin a little after seeing this thread. It's interesting that the spelling is so inconsistent. The thread was started by Greene's Basin Girl but then she mentions Green's Basin in several places. On Google Maps the basin is marked as Greens Basin but the road leading out to it is marked Greene's Basin Road. In past threads the basin is referred to as Greene's, Green's and Greens Basin. I've checked several maps and the basin itself is always marked as Greens. It appears that is the proper spelling. Does anyone know for sure?

The truth will be hard to come by. The story that I heard is that Mr. Green, lived in the basin to the east of what is now called Green's basin. The whole area was "Green's Basin" and at some point, it was renamed to mean just the western most basin. Lee's Pond and Lee's Mills are other places with the same ambiguous possessive issue.