The year is 1810, and Green Township was already two or three years into their record-keeping. Early citizens of this township paid tax as citizens of Green Township, Highland County.  The old records show two tax receipts that say:

“Tax receipt, October 6, 1807. Received of Micajah Nordyke $2.65 of land and county tax for the year. 

“November 9, 1809. received Micajah Nordyke his state and county tax: state tax $2.25, county tax 45 cents; 300 acres of land,” 

Norkyke Graves at the Quaker Cemetery on Nordyke Road

Because of these receipts, we know that this township was formed as early as 1809.

            Green Township lies in the southeast part of Clinton County. It is bounded on the southeast by Highland County; on the west by Clark, Washington and Union Townships; on the north by Union and Wayne Townships and on the northeast by Wayne Township. This township contains about forty-three square miles of land, or twenty-seven thousand five hundred and twenty acres. 

            The white man made his first appearance in this township about the year 1800. The first settlers to make this their permanent home were Joseph Anthony, who came here from Virginia; Abner Van Meter and Samuel Clevenger and Morgan Van Meter, who was a native of Morgantown, Virginia, and who settled around Snow Hill in the year 1800. Van Meter purchased two hundred acres of land, and built a double log house - the first log cabin erected in the township.

            It is thought by older inhabitants that the first settlement was made a little southwest of the center of the township on the East fork of the Little Miami river. Micajah Nordyke was also among the first settlers. He came here from North Carolina in 1804. He and a brother purchased land for two dollars and fifty cents an acre from Col. A. Buford, who owned a large tract of land in this region. This small settlement attracted others, such as Stephen Hussey in 1806-07, who purchased land which is now a portion of the town of New Vienna. Other early settlers were Joseph Anthony, William Noble, Sr., Aaron Cox and Eliha Noble. Charles Harris built the “Snow Hill house”, and opened a tavern there, probably the first opened in the county. Mr. Harris’s brother-in-law, Samuel Wasson, built a house about the same time and near the Snow Hill house. By 1820 the population had increased until  practically all of the lands were occupied.

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