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Greene is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in the western part of the town of Coventry in Kent County, Rhode Island, named in honor of Nathanael Greene, the Rhode Island-born general of the American Revolution, with a population of 914 at the 2020 census.

Until 1854 Greene was a swamp with a cart path running through it connecting Hopkins Hollow to the south and Rice City to the north, and when the railroad arrived in the early 1850s the original train stop was known as Coffin Station before railroad officials renamed it Greene in 1856.

The Greene depot became an important station in western Rhode Island, where farmers brought their produce each morning to sell to the 7:25 milk train heading to Providence, and the village shipped large amounts of milk, wood and cranberries by rail.

The Advent Christian Church held annual camp meetings at Greene starting in 1880, and up to 10,000 people would attend during the summer months, with the railroad adding extra cars to its trains, before the camp meeting declined in the twentieth century.

The railroad's importance declined with the automobile and the Greene depot closed in 1969, but the village remains mostly intact, with most of its buildings dating from the late nineteenth century.

The Greene census-designated place includes the communities of Greene, Fairbanks Corner, Rice City and Summit, covers 6.09 square miles at an elevation of 558 feet, and is drained by the Moosup River, which flows west to the Quinebaug River in Connecticut.

Rhode Island Route 14 runs along the northern edge of the census-designated place through Fairbanks Corner and leads northeast 23 miles to Providence and west 7 miles to Moosup, Connecticut, while Rhode Island Route 117 passes through the center of the community and Rhode Island Route 102 forms its eastern border.

The Coventry Greenway, part of the East Coast Greenway running from Maine to Florida, is a rail trail that runs through Greene on the route of the old New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.

The 2020 census counted 914 people, 325 households and 273 families in Greene, with a median age of 43.3 years, and the 2016-2020 American Community Survey estimated the median household income at 83,200 dollars.

Greene is home to the Greene Community Church and House and the Greene Public Library, and the community is served by ZIP code 02827.