Every town and village has a building or two that defines the area, some distinctive or historic structure. In downtown Wilton and Milford, it is the town hall, in Mont Vernon the church, in other places the school or the library.
In South Lyndeborough Village, it is the Forest House, a two-story house with a wide porch. Before 1840, when Forest Road (now Route 31) was opened, the village was a cluster of five houses near where the road from Wilton to Greenfield crossed the road from Mont Vernon to Temple, a section of town called Putnam Corner. Of those five houses, three were occupied by, or had been built by, members of the Putnam family.
The town history of 1905 says the Forest House was the third of these dwellings.![]()
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