Through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Greens Farms lived as an agricultural and maritime community. Salt marshes and tidal creeks shaped the working day; farmers shipped onions, potatoes, and market crops down the creeks and along the Sound to New York; and when the railroad came through, the little station on New Creek Road put the farms an errand away from the city — a convenience that would, in time, remake the place entirely.
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.
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.
