
The Machamux Boulder on the old Common still marks the 1648 settlement — a village older than its town, named by the census in 2020.
The story of Machamux remains central to the village's identity. The Common the Bankside Farmers laid out survives as a small landscaped park on Green's Farms Road, marked by the Machamux Boulder — a monument to the 1648 settlement — and the village still answers to its full run of names: Machamux, Bankside, Green's Farms, Greens Farms. Few places in Connecticut hold their whole history in so short a walk: boulder, Common, church, station, marsh, and Sound.
Why People Visit Greens Farms
Greens Farms offers calm beaches, salt-marsh nature, and village charm steeped in the deepest colonial history on the Westport shore. Visitors come for the first-state-park beach at Sherwood Island and stay for the sense of a place that has held its name — the beautiful land — for nearly four centuries.