As with many things in Lynn, Lynn Woods emerged from the aftermath of a major fire. The conflagration of 1869 led to the founding of the Lynn Water Board in 1870 and the eventual purchase and creation of pond reservoirs in Lynn Woods to fight future fires. In 1881, the Trustees of the Free Public Forest organized to acquire the land surrounding these new reservoirs and to make what would become a forest park of more than two thousand acres available to the local and regional
Keith N. Morgan, "Lynn Woods Historic District", [Lynn, Massachusetts], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MA-01-LY10.
Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston, Keith N. Morgan, with Richard M. Candee, Naomi Miller, Roger G. Reed, and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009, 376-377.
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