[fatlazyless]

Looking through a good set of binoculars from the Town of Gilford's Lincoln Park located on Lake Winnipesaukee, you can see very well the Castle in the Clouds and the adjoining 5000-acres ossipee mountain range from a distance of about ten miles. Maybe someone wants to run over to Lincoln Park this morning and make a real good, high resolution photograph and have it posted here by noon........anyone?

It would be nice to have a photo of the Castle here.

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Some Winnipesaukee waterfront summer camps pay regular property taxes, and some do not? Camp Winnaukee in Moultonborough is reported to pay full property taxes.

Camp Monotomy, a no longer operating girl scout camp owned by the Girl Scouts of Massachusetts is reported to pay no property tax and it has been closed for about eight years. It gets very light use for about two weeks per year with its' Whispering Pines program. If those pines could talk, you know what they would say.....they would be whispering.....pssstttt.....hey lookie here.....what a great deal.....all this land, waterfront and hundred year old trees......zero taxes.....and just one black bear for a year round resident......SUCH-A-DEAL....whisper.....whisper......whisper!

The Appalachian Mountain Club's Three Mile Island Camp is reported to pay $20,000/year as a payment in lieu of taxes to the Town of Meredith which is just peanuts compared to what Three Mile Island would be paying as a whole were it to be subdivided into one acre waterfront lots.

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If the Castle were to pay property tax then how much would it be paying and how much would that be impacting it mission as an historic and educational venue?

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Here's a thought just for laughs: What the town needs is some type of a reverse tax where the Town of Moultonborough pays a reverse tax out to its residents. Just looking at the town buildings and town salaries, it appears that the town definitely goes first class!