
The Machamux Boulder on the old Common still marks the 1648 settlement — a village older than its town, named by the census in 2020.
Today Greens Farms blends shoreline calm with the deepest colonial memory on the Westport coast. Its story runs from Machamux and the five families of 1648, through the burned and rebuilt parish, the onion boats and the railroad, to the first state park and the quiet lanes of the present. Wear a little of the beautiful land.
Why People Visit Greens Farms
- Spend a beach day at Sherwood Island State Park — Connecticut's first state park — and walk out to the point for the 9/11 Living Memorial's long view down the Sound.
- Find the Machamux Boulder on the old Common along Green's Farms Road — the 1648 settlement marked in stone.
- See the Greens Farms Congregational Church, the parish that rebuilt after 1779 and never broke its line.
- Swim the town side at Burying Hill Beach, the small crescent with the big history in its name.
- Walk or fish the marsh edges where the onion boats once loaded, and watch the ospreys work New Creek.
- Ride the New Haven Line to the little Green's Farms station and arrive the way a century of villagers did.