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What's with Greens Farms? Greens Farms is Westport's oldest corner — Machamux, the beautiful land of the Pequot, settled by five Bankside Farmers in 1648 and never renamed in spirit since. It is a shoreline village of salt marsh, stone walls, and old trees, holding Connecticut's first state park at its western edge and three and three-quarter centuries of memory under its lawns.
The Revolution burned through in July 1779, when Governor Tryon's raiders — the same force that torched Fairfield and Norwalk that month — put the Greens Farms church and much of the parish to the torch. The congregation rebuilt, as Connecticut parishes did, and the church that stands today carries the line forward; the village's Revolutionary chapter runs with its neighbors' in the same hard summer, a story told at length on our Westport and Minutemen pages.
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.
