in Greenville, became one of the nation’s leading makers of marching band uniforms. The company’s diverse production history has included graduation caps and gowns, choir robes, church and lodge furniture, and lodge initiation devices. The DeMoulin Museum, founded in 2010, pays tribute to the founders, employees, and amazing products created by this unique factory. Though the museum contains examples of many of DeMoulin’s creations, the lodge initiation devices–including the Bucking Goat; Invisible Paddle Machine; and Lifting and Spraying Machine–are what have attracted visitors from over 30 states. The museum has been featured in numerous publications, including Atlas Obscura and Roadside America. Transportation Greenville Municipal Airport is located 3 miles from the central business district of Greenville. Greenville rail freight shippers are served by the main lines of BNSF and CSX and the local shortline Illinois Western Railroad that has connections to both BNSF and CSX. Highways include Interstate 70, U.S. Route 40, Illinois Route 127, and Illinois Route 140. Bond County Transit has several bus stops in Greenville. Notable people Ernest L. Boyer, former U.S. Commissioner of Education Robert Briner, Emmy Award-winning television producer Job Adams Cooper, sixth governor of Colorado Gerald Greider, Wisconsin legislator Phyllis Holmes, former basketball coach for Greenville College and U.S. Olympic Team; member of Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Alfred Harrison Joy, astronomer Enoch A. Holtwick, temperance activist and Prohibition Party candidate for President in 1956 Edwin G. Krebs, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Herbert Lyle Mayfield, hybrid folk instrument designer and builder, inventor of guitalin; writer, columnist, and journeyman printer Tom Merritt, former executive editor on TWIT network and host of the Daily Tech News Show. Henry Perrine, noted horticulturalist Robert E. "Ish" Smith, president of IBAF and the United States Baseball Federation, former president of Greenville College Ron Stephens, formerly of the Illinois House of Representatives Manuel Velazquez, anti-boxing activist Frank Watson, longtime Republican Minority Leader of the Illinois Senate Howard Zahniser, environmental activist, wrote Wilderness Act of 1964 References External links City of Greenville official website WGEL, Greenville's radio station Bond County Community Unit #2 School District Populated places established in 1819 Cities in Bond County, Illinois Cities in Illinois County seats in Illinois Populated places on the Underground Railroad 1815 establishments in Illinois Territory