our story

When we gather in our historic, light-filled Meetinghouse, we are following in the footsteps of the generations who have worshiped in Green’s Farms since June 12, 1711.

In 1648, five families set out west from Fairfield to farm alongside Long Island Sound next to Burying Hill Beach in what is now Westport. By 1711, they had been joined by another 265 farmers and the Connecticut Legislature said the settlers could start their own church.  The first Meetinghouse – a square wooden barn – was at the foot of Morningside Drive and Green’s Farms Road and served as the location for both spiritual and political meetings.

In 1736, a larger Meetinghouse was built at the corner of Green’s Farms Road and the Sherwood Island Connector, opposite the Colonial Burial Ground, which was our first cemetery. In 1779, a British raiding party burned down the Meetinghouse, the parsonage and many other homes. The third Meetinghouse went up on the site of the current church in 1789, then the building we use today replaced it in 1853. 

Despite the wars, snowstorms, hurricanes, fires  and other calamities of those 300+ years, people have worshiped at our church without missing a Sunday.

For the full story, read our 300th Anniversary History booklet. Congregants and visitors are also welcome to browse through our archive room, and to join cemetery tours conducted by our Church Historian, Peter Jennings.