Historical Background of our City of Greenfield 

Clark Colony Clark City Greenfield  City of Greenfield 

    How did Clark Colony form?  Clark Colony's "roots" can be traced back to a Company called "California Home Extension Association" .  Their "main" branch office located in Los Angeles, California and on April 5th, 1905 they offered land for sale at and around the Arroyo Seco River.  The average price per acre was $37.50 and it included water rights.  The "Clark Colony Water Company" was formed on April 7, 1905 to be in charge of distributing water to the stockholder who paid the dept at the rate of $25.00 for each subdivision's acres.  

    How did Clark Colony change its name to Clark City?  Fred G. Vivian, the publisher of the King City paper, referred to Clark Colony in his paper in 1907.  Residence wanted to call their new home - Clark City, however there was a Clark City near Bakersfield developed by the same Mr. Clark.  Residence referred  to their home now as Clark City but Clark City was never a city.  It had no Mayor and no Council.  The Grange and Agriculture Organization received their Charter in January of 1911.  This Organization directed the town in "civic matters"  in those early years.  

    How did Clark City change its name to Greenfield?  The Government needed a Post Office and Mr. Greenfield was a member of the land development, so his name was sent to the Government and the name of "Greenfield"  was accepted.  Now Clark City became Greenfield and in January of 1947 Greenfield became the "City of Greenfield".    

    The first Mayor of the City of Greenfield was a man by the name of Tom Rogers.  Tom Rogers served as Mayor for the City of Greenfield from 1947 through 1952.  

    Tom Rogers (1945)

    Tom was very active in our Community.  He was "Master of the Grange"  (around 1928).  He was active within the "Business Men's Association" (around the 1930's), "Chamber of Commerce" (around the late 1930's) and he was a member of the "Lions" for many years.  Tom was also given an "Appreciation" Award by his Fellow Townsmen in the year of 1949.  It was a Trophy and the following words were inscribed on it: By his Fellow Townsmen in appreciation of his service to Greenfield  1949.  In 1952 a brass plate was added to this Trophy, in further appreciation of Tom's Continuing Community Service, and the following words were inscribed on it: Commemorating Continued Achievement  1952.     

    Yes, Tom Rogers "gave a lot of himself" for the benefit of our Community.