Located at the top of Meetinghouse Hill, the Florence Barnaby House is headquarters for the Brookline Historical Society.
Brookline was originally the western part of Hollis, and the townspeople tried twice during the 1770s to become a separate town. Eventually, the townspeople prevailed and the town of Raby was established in honor of an English peerage held by the Wentworth family that governed the colony for the first half of the 18th century. After the Revolutionary War, at the suggestion of the town’s leading citizens the town was renamed Brookline and incorporated as such in 1798. Of the nearly 13,000 acres in town, the majority still remains undeveloped. Brookline is a typical small New Hampshire town with a village center, rolling hills with granite outcroppings and colonial era homes along the miles of rural roadways. Today, citizens and businesses alike have quick and easy access to Nashua and Massachusett’s commercial and cultural centers as well as to acres of natural resources along the Nissitissit River, Beaver Brook, Lake Potanipo and the Talbot-Taylor Wildlife Sanctuary. Text, courtesy of the Souhegan Chamber of Commerce.

Cave used during Revolutionary and Civil Wars; may also be a Native American site.