Annual Lantern Tour – Westport Historical Society & Green's Farms Church
Sunday, September 26 4pm,
Green's Farms Church Upper Cemetery
$5 per person/$15 per family
Rain or shine: Alternate venue is Green's Farms Church
Lantern Tour
Join the Westport Historical Society and Green's Farms Church in this unique tour of the GFC Upper Cemetery, located across the parking lot from the Church on Hillandale Road. The church is celebrating its 300th anniversary on June 12, 2011 and has invited the WHS to feature this cemetery in conjunction with the anniversary celebration. Guided by Peter Jennings, the tour will visit the gravesites of several Westporters and GFC members, including the Sherwood Family, Edward Coley Birge and Charles Rowe, sexton of GFC and a freed slave. Don't miss this chance to learn about some of Westport's most notable residents!