In 1711, settlers in the district of Greens Farms (then the West Parish of Fairfield and now part of Westport) were permitted by Connecticut General Court to form their own Congregational Society. By 1720, the congregation had completed a meeting house at the foot of Morningside Drive and Greens Farms Road. The community grew rapidly and a larger meeting house was needed. It was erected in 1738 at the corner of Green’s Farms Road and the Sherwood Island Connector, opposite the Colonial Burial Ground. This building was burned by a British raiding party in 1779 during the Revolutionary War. The congregation’s third meeting house was completed in 1781 on Hillandale Road. It was replaced by the current Green’s Farms Church, a Greek Revival-style building, in 1853. The Parish of Greens Farms was annexed by the Town of Westport in 1842.
I believe Greens Farms is the correct spelling…no apostrophe.
Francis,
The church’s website has the apostrophe in the name, so I was debating what to do when I wrote this post. I’ve edited out the apostrophes everywhere except in the link to church’s website.