For the past two years, the Greenwich Preservation Trust and the Greenwich Woman's Club have organized a colonial bus stop at The Thomas Lyon House

At the Thomas Lyon House, the Town of Greenwich's oldest unaltered colonial structure, students were greeted to a glimpse of the past.

For the past two years the Greenwich Preservation Trust and the Greenwich Woman’s Club have organized a colonial bus stop at the Thomas Lyon House. The schools involved are the western communities of’ Greenwich, New Lebanon, Hamilton Avenue and Glenville Schools. The third grade teachers at each school are provided a brief history of the Thomas Lyon House weeks before the tour date. On the day of the bus tour, each bus is greeted by a “historically dressed” volunteer and member of’ the Greenwich Preservation Trust. She provides a brief history of the Thomas Lyon House aboard each bus. This short visit at the Thomas Lyon House provides the students with a love of their immediate neighborhood history.

Jo Conboy, chairman of the Greenwich Preservation Trust, strongly advocates historic preservation through a sense of place. “By actually seeing an old house and learning that generations of families and their children lived and witnessed a variety of historical events, whether it was the British marching by during the Revolutionary War or a family providing refuge and work for escaped slaves before the Civil War, history can be seen through historic preservation. The members of the Trust enjoy bringing history to the present through Greenwich's historic structures.”