Forest Grove Historic District

Forest Grove is a small rural village in western Buckingham Township, Bucks County, set on an agricultural plain where Lower Mountain, Upper Mountain and Forest Grove Roads meet. Its houses are mostly simple frame, single-pile residences two and a half stories high with plain gable roofs, while a few are built of stone or brick. Roads through the area appear on a 1774 county map, and farms were settled nearby by 1740. Most buildings date from the 1830s through the 1850s, when the village took shape around a general store, an Odd Fellows hall and a Presbyterian church dedicated in 1855. The village was once called Forrestville, and its later name came from a grove that once surrounded it. The district is regarded as an intact example of a rural village that grew up at a crossroads, and the nomination emphasizes its integrity because so little commercial development followed.