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Besides the summer camps, there are other properties which are tax exempt. Ellecoya State Park, Gilford Town Beach, Cattle Landing Town Dock, Hesky Park, Appalachian Mountain Club's Three MIle Island camps, Timber Island's conservation easment, Stonedam Island conservation easment to name a few, and there are others.

I benefit from Timber Island's conservation easement because it is an untouched forest and not totally built-out with homes for a better view. I still say that Timber Island would have made a good state park when that huge island was for sale for something like 1.4 million dollars, a few years ago. If New Hampshire's state gov had a normal tax system, it would have beeen able to jump to purchase Timber Island and created a 'Timber Island State Park.'

So, there's two sides to New Hampshire very unusual tax system. From a tax revenue point of view, New Hampshire is not so much a state as it is a collection of individual towns.

Ellecoya State Park in Gilford, and Whittemore Point State Park on Newfound Lake, are both very attractive properties. Neither one was originally purchased by the state. Both exist today, because they were donated to the state by their private owners.