Gretna, Manitoba Gretna after Gretna Green in Scotland, also a border community, where runaway couples were married by the blacksmith at his anvil. Gretna soon became a prominent border community. As businesses thrived and expanded, Gretna life in the early 20th century was filled with promise and opportunity. As progress would have it, changes afforded Gretna no favours and the community began losing the grain milling industry responsible for its boom. After the World War II, Gretna became the centre for oil transfer to the United States of America. Enbridge Pipelines Inc. (the main storage and transfer company of oil in southern
Gretna, Louisiana Elementary in Terrytown served a portion of Gretna. In 2012 Kate Middleton Elementary closed. Milestone Sabis Academy, a K-8 charter school, is in Gretna. Jefferson Parish Library operates the Gretna Public Library in Gretna. The current facility, with more than of space, opened on March 17, 2010. The library includes a meeting room that can accommodate 58 people. The library is almost twice the size of the previous facility. Schools Gretna, Louisiana Gretna is the second-largest city in and parish seat of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. Gretna lies on the west bank of the Mississippi River, just east and