Upton-Morgan State Forest

It is located in the southwest part of Concord off Silk Farm Road and is bordered to the northwest by New Hampshire Route 13 (Clinton Street) and to the northeast by Interstate 89.

Skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) grows in the area.

[1] In 1835, several Concord entrepreneurs bought the property, the Ballard Haselton farm, in order to raise silk worms, and planted mulberry trees on the land.

The silk farm failed after a few years, though the name is preserved in the road that runs past the entrance to the forest.

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