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, Florida and northwest to Chattahoochee. Interstate 10 passes through the southwest part of Gretna, with access from Exit 174 (Florida State Road 12). I-10 leads east to Tallahassee and west to Pensacola. SR 12 leads southwest to Bristol, and SR 65 leads south to Hosford. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city of Gretna has a total area of , of which , or 0.13%, is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,709 people, 503 households, and 401 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 553 housing units at an average