The settlers laid out a Common south of Clapboard Hill, built the area's first schoolhouse there in 1703, and in 1711 raised the first meeting house of the West Parish of Fairfield — the religious society that has continued unbroken for more than three centuries as the Green's Farms Congregational Church, today in its 1853 meeting house on Hillandale Road. The Bankside settlement was renamed Green's Farms in 1732 in honor of John Green, its largest landholder, and Frost Point still carries Daniel Frost's name. During the Revolutionary War, British troops raided the parish and burned the meeting house along with houses and barns; Deacon Ebenezer Jesup saved the church's communion service by hiding it in his well, the congregation met in private homes for nearly ten years, and a new church rose in 1789 — the community rebuilding rather than scattering.
Today Greens Farms blends suburban shoreline living with deep colonial history. Its neighborhoods sit beside landmarks that recall the 1648 settlement, the 1711 parish, and Connecticut's first state park at Sherwood Island. Our Greens Farms designs gather that layered identity into wearable form — the oyster shell, the salt marsh, the beautiful land of Machamux. Explore the collection and carry forward a symbol of a Connecticut shoreline that has held its name's promise for three and a half centuries.
Why People Visit Greens Farms Connecticut
- Explore Sherwood Island State Park, Connecticut's first state park — 238 acres of beach, salt marsh, and woodland on Long Island Sound, with swimming, fishing, and birdwatching.
- Find the Machamux Boulder on the old Common at Green's Farms Road near Morningside Drive, the monument marking the original 1648 settlement.
- See the Green's Farms Congregational Church, the parish society's 1853 meeting house on Hillandale Road carrying a continuous history since 1711.
- Drive Beachside Avenue past historic shoreline estates, with the Sound on one side and salt marsh on the other.
- Walk the quiet shoreline lanes around Frost Point — named for Bankside Farmer Daniel Frost — and the marsh edges of Sasco Creek.
- Catch the Metro-North New Haven Line at Greens Farms Station for a commuter-rail glimpse of the neighborhood's daily rhythm between New York and the Connecticut shoreline.
