| May 26, 1851 | |
First meeting at Town Hall; Green River Cemetery incorporated |
| June 2, 1851 | |
First land acquisition of 12-1/2 acres |
| October 7, 1851 | |
Consecration service held after grand procession through town |
| October 26, 1851 | |
Deed to first lot purchased |
| June 1852 | |
8 acres acquired from Albert Smead |
| July 30, 1853 | |
2-1/2 acres acquired from Daniel Wells |
| September 25, 1854 | |
1-1/2 acres acquired from Levi Jones |
| June 16, 1855 | |
1 acre purchased from John Hamilton |
| 1857 | |
Survey map produced |
| October 5, 1857 | |
3 acres bordering Petty Plain Road purchased by Catholic diocese |
| 1866 | |
Fence at Wells plot erected |
| June 9, 1870 | |
Death of Albert R. Field, designer of Green River Cemetery |
| 1886 | |
8+ acres purchased by Cephas Root |
| October 5, 1887 | |
Death of William B. Washburn, former Massachusetts Governor |
| June 1, 1901 | |
Everill L. Jenkins becomes superintendent |
| 1902 | |
Wisdom Way entrance built; pillars donated by Frank O. Wells |
| April 1908 | |
Superintendent's residence, Green River lodge, completed |
| February 11, 1911 | |
10-1/2 acres acquired from Franklin A. Pond |
| 1915 | |
Bequest of Isabella Russell for mortuary chapel becomes available |
| 1921 | |
Chapel erected |
| May 1928 | |
Death of Everill L. Jenkins |
| July 1928 | |
Willis E. Tuttle becomes superintendent |
| March 1, 1929 | |
Whitman B. Wells of Deerfield becomes superintendent |
| 1938 | |
Hurricane destroys about half of the trees at cemetery |
| 1959 | |
Albert Karlsen begins work at Green River Cemetery |
| 1970-75 | |
Front pillars removed |
| 1975-76 | |
Central flower bed section sold for interments |
| 1978 | |
Albert Karlson becomes superintendent |
| July 21, 1980 | |
4.91 acres sold to Franklin County Agricultural Society |
| 1983 | |
Greenhouse removed after being destroyed by heavy snow |
| 1993 | |
Albert Karlson retires |
| 1993 | |
Ed Snow, Jr. becomes superintendent |
| August 1993 | |
Cemetery interment books start using new section numbers |
| 2001 | |
150th anniversary of Green River Cemetery |
| 2006 | |
Erosion of section 3 causes relocation of William Washburn and 48 others |
| March 7, 2011 | |
Large mudslide in SE corner of Cemetery closes Water St and Meridian St below |
| October 3, 2015 | |
Death of William B. Allen II, director at GRC for over 40 years |
| Fall 2015 | |
Remediation of 2011 mudslide threatening Sections 24 & 26 |
