House located in an area of Forest Home (now residential) where there were once a number of mill buildings. This house was the sorting and rag room for the Gauntlett & Andrus Paper Company. The paper mill was located on the land below the two current houses to the southeast (now 233 and 235 Forest Home Drive). The mill was apparently operated only from 1846-1851. The rag sorting room was upstairs in the 229 Forest Home Drive house. Downstairs was a knitting mill that produced mittens.
The Gauntlett & Andrus Paper Company is shown in the Extract in 1853 Map of Tompkins County showing Free Hollow (now Forest Home) [
https://www.fhia.org/historic-maps-of-forest-home/#1853].
In subsequent years, this building served as a lodge for the Good Templars. It has been used as a single family home since the early 1900s, and was occupied from 1927 to 1984 by the same owner, Glenn Palmer.
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Forest Home Historic District with USN 10906.000063. To access the Building-Structure Inventory Form (sometimes referred to as the "Blue Form"), follow these
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