Surgeon John Greene purchased Greene Farm from the Narragansett sachem Miantonomi in 1642. Greene initially called the 700+ acres "Greene's Hold", and the parcel was the largest in 17th century Warwick. By 1663 Surgeon John Greene and/or his son Major John Greene, Jr. constructed dwelling(s) along the southwest coast of the Occupaspatuxet Cove, where they lived while cultivating and trading from the property until about 1700. Five generations of Greenes owned the estate until 1782, when John Brown (1736-1803), a wealthy, powerful Providence merchant and co-founder of Brown University, bought it. The farm was then worked by tenant farmers, and the Brown family used it as a country retreat. Brown’s grandson, Governor John Brown Francis (1791-1864), returned to the property, where he and his descendants remain today.

As a long-term research project, GFAP aims to record, preserve, and protect the property's extraordinary archaeological and historical resources.

Greene Farm's Landscape and Structures (click here for slideshow)