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Greens Farms’ post office opened in 1875, and 18% of its homes were built before 1940

2 places in town are on the National Register. Below: 6 old photos and papers, maps from 1892 on, and old-book passages.

1875first post office
2on the National Register
18%homes built before 1940
6old photos & papers
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Quick answers

How Greens Farms began

When was Greens Farms founded?

1875

The Greens Farms post office opened in 1875, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 3,125151 years
Founding year: the first Greens Farms post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
The story

How Greens Farms came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Greens Farms.

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In 1648 the Town of Fairfield officially gave five farmers, collectively known as the Bankside Farmers, permission to settle the fertile land that the Pequot people were living in. The Bankside Farmers purchased the land from the Pequot who called it Machamux ("beautiful land"). The land that the Pequot sold, then within the original boundaries of the Town of Fairfield, stretched from "Frost Point an English mile along the seacoast toward Compaw, and six or seven miles inland." The Pequot moved to an area "elevated back east of this strip".

The first three settlers were Thomas Newton, Henry Gray and John Green. Daniel Frost and Francis Andrews later joined the Bankside Farmers making five in total.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

From the old history books

What they wrote about Greens Farms in 1889

Passages that mention Greens Farms, cut from the printed page as they were published.

its own. The parish at Stratfield also had erected a church upon the Plain of Pequonnuc a short distance east of the grove near the new cemetery, the number of families by this time having increased to about twenty-five. By these changes the parish of Fairfield was reduced in limits to the villages…
The history of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, from the settlement of the town in 1639 to 18181889 · page 452Read the page →
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its own. The parish at Stratfield also had erected a church upon the Plain of Pequonnuc a short distance east of the grove near the new cemetery, the number of families by this time having increased to about twenty-five. By these changes the parish of Fairfield was reduced in limits to the villages of Greens Farms, Greenfield, & Southport, or Mill River. The parishes of Stratfield & Norfield, however, continued under the care of the Rev. Mr. Lamson who preached once a month at Stratfield, & at Norfield, giving them besides as much of his time as his parish at Fairfield would allow. He was an able & accomplished scholar, a devoted and enthusiastic churchman, greatly beloved among his

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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Timeline

Greens Farms, 1892 to 1942

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1892On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  3. 20th century
  4. 1930In the archiveGreyhound Post House, Boston Post Road, Greens Farms, Conn (84068)
  5. 1942In the archiveHarold L. Lloyd, residence in Greens Farms, Connecticut. LOC gsc.5a08939
By decade

Greens Farms, decade by decade

2 decades in the archive, from the 1930s to the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1930s–1940s6 items
Greyhound Post House, Boston Post Road, Greens Farms, Conn (84068)c. 1930Greyhound Post House, Boston Post Road, Greens Farms,…Harold L. Lloyd, residence in Greens Farms, Connecticut. LOC gsc.5a089391942Harold L. Lloyd, residence in Greens Farms, Connectic…Harold L. Lloyd, residence in Greens Farms, Connecticut. LOC gsc.5a089401942Harold L. Lloyd, residence in Greens Farms, Connectic…Harold L. Lloyd, residence in Greens Farms, Connecticut. LOC gsc.5a089411942Harold L. Lloyd, residence in Greens Farms, Connectic…Harold L. Lloyd, residence in Greens Farms, Connecticut. LOC gsc.5a089421942Harold L. Lloyd, residence in Greens Farms, Connectic…Harold L. Lloyd, residence in Greens Farms, Connecticut. LOC gsc.5a089431942Harold L. Lloyd, residence in Greens Farms, Connectic…
1950s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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On the map

Greens Farms on the map in 1892

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Greens Farms.

Greens Farms on the 1892 USGS map1892Norwalk sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Greens Farms.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

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Greyhound Post House, Boston Post Road, Greens Farms, Conn (84068)
Retake this viewGreyhound Post House, Boston Post Road, Greens Farms, Conn (84068), c. 1930

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On the National Register

2 listings protect 18 historic buildings

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
18
each building in a district counts

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

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Finish Greens Farms’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
2 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewGreyhound Post House, Boston Post Road,…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Compo1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWestport18 historic placesASouthport3 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFairfield13 historic placesAStaplesIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Greens Farms’ history

What year was Greens Farms founded?

The Greens Farms post office opened in 1875, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.