Incorporated: 1761
Population: 1,544
County Name: Grafton
(county map)
Town Contact:
Town of Lyme
PO Box 126
Lyme, NH 03768

Phone: 603-795-4639
Fax: 603-795-4637
Website: www.lymenh.gov/home

Origin:
Another of the many towns granted along the Connecticut River in 1761, Lyme takes its name from Old Lyme, which lies at the mouth of the Connecticut River. Most of the grantees were from Palmer and Brimfield in Massachusetts, or from Londonderry, NH.

More about Lyme:
Stagecoaches traveling the old Boston Turnpike from Montreal in the 1830s often passed through Lyme, stopping at the Lyme Inn (which is now the Alden Country Inn).

Next door to the Inn is the 200 year old Congregational Church whose steeple bell cast by Paul Revere still chimes on the hour. Behind the church is a row of horse sheds dating from 1810, each with the name of the original owner inscribed above the door. Today, local talented craftspeople display and sell their merchandise from these sheds.

The scenic town common is surrounded by several privately owned historic houses.