The City of Greenbrier - Early Development Greenbrier is 12 miles north of Conway on Highway 65 nestled in a valley surrounded by hills and ridges. We all pretty much know this about Greenbrier, but how much do you know about the early development and history of our town? According to the Faulkner County Historical Society, as early as 1818 settlers were in the vicinity of what is now Greenbrier. Four brothers by the name Wiley lived near East Fork Cadron which is about eight miles east of the present site. In 1853 Henderson Moore's family came from North Carolina in covered wagons drawn by oxen and bought a section of land from Hubbard. This land was just south of the Des Arch-Lewisburg road near the present business section of Greenbrier. Hubbard homesteaded some land near the present site of the Greenbrier Public Schools on Greenbrier Creek. He built a house of sticks and mud about the sa...