How many island homes are on the lake?

[Grady223]

Is anyone keep a stroke count of the homes by Island?

[Rattlesnake Gal]

There are two islands in Woodman’s Cove and each has a home on them.
(Their names are not on the maps.)
Ship Island has one home.
Parker Island has a main house and a guesthouse.
Moose Island appears to have two homes.

[Pineedles]

Originally Posted by Grady223

Is anyone keep a stroke count of the homes by Island?

MikeM wanted to know, so I am assuming he's keeping count. Unless you're volunteering?

[eillac@dow]

Dow Island has 11 homes & 3 bunkhouses

[Argie's Wife]

Lake Winnipesaukee is absolutely amazing when it comes to its islands.

Over 274 inhabitable islands many bearing the same name. (must have been interesting for the mail boat:-))

This is a list of Islands on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire.


If you have any other island info Please email us

1 island with greater than 1000 acres (Long Island 1186 ac.)

3 islands between 500 and 1000 acres
(Bear Island 780 ac., Cow Island 522 ac., Governor's Island 504 ac.)

7 islands between 100 and 500 acres
(Rattlesnake Island 368 ac., Welch Island 187 ac., Little Bear Island 143 ac., Stonedam Island 141 ac., Timber Island 136 ac., Sleepers Island 113 ac., Mark Island 102 ac.)

6 islands between 50 and 100 acres 25 islands between 10 and 50 acres

226 islands with less than 10 acres


Badger Island(11 acres)
Barndoor Island(88 acres)
Battleship Island
Beaver Island(7 acres)
Bear Island(780 acres) (second largest island)it is the only island with its own church.
Becky’s Garden (Winnipesaukee's smallest island)
Big Island
Big Beaver Island(30 acres)
Birch #1 Island(25 acres)
Birch #2 Island
Black Island
Black Cat Island(75 acres) One of the islands bridged to the mainland. Accessible year round.
Blanche Island
Blanchards Island
Blueberry Island
Breezy Island
Brew Island
Camp Island(28 acres)
Chase's Island(19 acres)
Children's Island
Chip Island
Church Island
Christmas Island(4 acres)
Cosy Island
Cove Island
Cove #1 Island
Cove #2 Island
Cove #3 Island
Cow Island(522 acres) Settled in 1812 by Paul Pillsbury who erected a grist mill here, and is said to be the founder of the world famous Pillsbury Flour firm.
Crescent Island
Cub Island
Dale Island
Devens Island
Diamond Island(37 acres) (In 1861 Diamond Island was home to The Diamond Island House, a hotel frequented by summer guests. The Mount Washington and the steamer Lady of the Lake docked at the island as part of their regular stops as a service to their lodgers. At one point it was rumored that the island supported a Brothel in which the patrons would arrive by train and take small boats to the island for the “illicit” entertainment. The hotel also hosted a restaurant and bowling alley and was later moved across the ice to the Weirs and became part of the Hotel Weirs which was destroyed by fire in 1924. During World War II the United States Navy operated a test sight for remote controlled submarines off the north western side of the island. Off the south side of the island remains a US Navy sound test laboratory and is a popular dive site. Today, Diamond Island is home to many summer residents in private cottages and homes. The islands convienient location to the mainland makes it a popular spot.once the site of a large hotel known as the Diamond Island House. In 1865, it became the property of the Winnipisseogee Lake Steamboat Company)
Dollar Island
Dolly Island
Dow Island(32 acres)
Eagle Island(named for its nesting site for a bald eagle in the 1880s)was owned by Jack Wright a famed Boston attorney. During ownership of the island, his wife planted forty two varieties of shrubs and trees on this tiny island.
East Twin Island
Echo Island
Evergreen Island
Farm Island(21 acres)
Far Ozone Island
Fish Island(4 acres)
Five Mile Island(13 acres)
Foley's Island
Ganzey Island(15 acres)
Gem Island
Gichigumi Island
Glines Island(7 acres)
Goodwin Island
Goose Island
Goose Egg Rock Island
Governor's Island(504 acres)
Grant Island
Guay Island
Gun Island
Gypsy Island
Half-Acre Island
Half Mile #1 Island
Half Mile #2 Island
Harbour Island
Harmony Island
Harvard Island
Hawk’s Nest Island
Helen Island
Hemlock Point Island
Hen Island
Hermit Island
Horse Island (Many years ago a summer resident of Center Harbor was transporting his horse to the Weirs by boat, when a storm arose, sinking the craft. They never found the man however the horse was found living contently on this island.)
Hull Island (9 acres)
Hurricane Island
Indian Island
Jib Island
Joe's Island(8 acres)
Jolly Island(50 acres)
Keel Island
Keniston Island(18 acres)
Kinneho Island(5 acres)
Isle of Pines Island
Ledge Island
Leroy Island
Less In Area Island
Lincoln Island
Little Island
Little Badger Island
Little Barndoor Island(6 acres)
Little Bear Island(143 acres)
Little Beaver Island
Little Birch Island
Little Blueberry Island
Little Camp Island(6 acres)
Little Cove Island
Little Ganzey Island
Little Goodwin Island
Little Huck Island
Little Keniston Island
Little Loon Island
Little Mark Island
Little One Mile Island
Little Pine Tree Island
Little Pine #1 Island
Little Pine #2 Island
Little Pine #3 Island
Little Plum Island
Little Ragged Island
Little Six Mile Island
Little Two Mile Island
Little Vixen Island
Little Whortleberry Island(6 acres)
Littlest Mud Island
Loan's Island
Lockes Island(42 acres)
Long Pine Island
Loon #1 Island
Loon #2 Island
Loon #3 Island
Loon #4 Island
Long Island(1,186 acres )(Winnipesaukee's largest island)
Mark Island(102 acres)
Melody Island (20 acres)
Melvin Island
Middle Beaver Island
Mink Island(26 acres)
Mt. Major Island
Moose Island
Nabby’s Island
Nine Acre Island(13 acres) How did it get its name?
North Pasture Island
Oak Island
October Eve Island
One Mile Island(6 acres)It was here on a foggy Thursday morning, early in 1910,that the old sidewheeler MOUNT WASHINGTON ran aground. There was very little damage done.
Outlaw Island
Overnight Island
Palmer Island
Parker Island
Penny #1 Island
Penny #2 Island
Perch Island
Pig Island
Pine Island(74 acres)
Pinehurst Island
Pistol Island
Pitchwood Island(15 acres)
PixieRock #3 Island
Pleasant
Pop Island
Poplar Island
Quarter Mile Island
Racoon Island
Ragged Island(12 acres)
Randall Island
Rattlesnake Island(368 acres) (Rattlesnakes were actually found on the island-in fact as late as the 1940's. The skins and remains of some of these snakes can be seen at the Libby Museum on Rt109 in Wolfeboro.
Rock #1 Island
Rock #2 Island
Rocky Ridge #1 Island
Rocky Ridge #2 Island
Rocky Ridge #3 Island
Round #1 Island(43 acres)
Round #2 Island
Saint's Rest Island
Sandy Island(67 acres)
Scavenger Island
Shelter Island
Shephard Island
Ship Island
Six Mile Island(23 acres)
Sleepers Island(113 acres)
Small Island
Spectacle (N)Island
Spectacle (S)Island
Spider Island
Spring Island
Squirrel Island
Starr Island
Steamboat Island
Stonedam Island(141 acres) (So named because of an old stone causeway connecting it with the mainland on Meredith Neck.)Island purchased in 1982 by Lakes Region Conservation Trust. Today's home of Stonedam Island Wildlife Preserve
Store Island
Three Mile Island(47 acres) (One of the summer homes of the Appalacian Mountain Club since 1900.)
Timber Island(136 acres)
Tip Island
Treasure Island(10)
Two Mile Island
Uppershoe Island
Wallace Island
Welch Island(187 acres)Map
Welcome Island
Wentworth Island
Whaleback Island(4 acres)
Whaleback Point Island
Whortleberry Island(69 acres)
Winch Island
Windswept Island
Worcester Island(18 acres)

[Fishy Cover]

Dale Island has one house

[Kamper]

Dollar has one house. I did a donut run there once for some friends who were staying there for a week. Nice place.

[Phantom]

Great post Argies Wife --- love the little antedotes

[Grady223]

Originally Posted by Argie's Wife

Lake Winnipesaukee is absolutely amazing when it comes to its islands.

Over 274 inhabitable islands many bearing the same name. (must have been interesting for the mail boat:-))

This is a list of Islands on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire.

Argie's Wife indicated 274 inhabitable islands but the named list she provided included only 195. Are the rest un-named or we just don't know their names. Does anyone know? There must be a complete list somewhere - can Bizer or Webmaster help?

[webmaster]

Originally Posted by Grady223

Argie's Wife indicated 274 inhabitable islands but the named list she provided included only 195. Are the rest un-named or we just don't know their names. Does anyone know? There must be a complete list somewhere - can Bizer or Webmaster help?

The home page of this site says "Number of Islands=253". That number comes from this page on Bizer's site: http://www.bizer.com/winislan.htm. I have never seen any substantiation of the 274 and 365 numbers that you see and hear frequently. Many years ago during a Mount Washington cruise they announced that there were "365 islands, one for each day of the year". I asked one of the bridge crew where that number came from and they weren't sure. I assume it may be just folklore.

[Argie's Wife]

Originally Posted by Grady223

Argie's Wife indicated 274 inhabitable islands but the named list she provided included only 195. Are the rest un-named or we just don't know their names. Does anyone know? There must be a complete list somewhere - can Bizer or Webmaster help?

Just to clarify that list - the source is lakewinnipesaukee.net - which I cite in the title above my post but thought I'd mention it again... Maybe there's a better resource?

[webmaster]

Originally Posted by Argie's Wife

Maybe there's a better resource?

http://www.bizer.com/winislan.htm

[M/V_Bear_II]

There is one house on one of the Ozones - I think it's Little Six Mile. Another Ozone has a structure on it, but I don't think it's a house.

For the record, under anecdotes (not to be confused with antidotes), Birch Island (#2 on the list?) is connected by footbridge to Steamboat. In addition to the single home on Steamboat, that Birch has about 10 houses, but I don't have an exact count.

According to a photo on lakewinnipesaukke.net, Little Island has 1 house.

http://www.lakewinnipesaukee.net/mod...album=41&pos=3

Could we be checking online deeds to find a count?

[SLI]

Gichigumi Island off Smith Point is tiny with no homes

[Orion]

Originally Posted by M/V_Bear_II

.......Birch Island (#2 on the list?) is connected by footbridge to Steamboat. In addition to the single home on Steamboat, that Birch has about 10 houses, but I don't have an exact count.

In an earlier post where I stated that Birch Is. has 1 house it should have said Little Birch I. (E of Cow).

Thanks M/V

[Fishy Cover]

Welcome Island is betwen Pitchwood and Stonedam and has one house that covers approximately 99.9865% of the island.

[kayakn]

Official name: Blacksnap but us locals call it Chicken Island is located near Rattlesnake Landing in Glidden Cove, West Alton. It is too small for any buildings.

[islandAl]

Pinehurst - 1
Loan's (?) - 1
Badger - 1
Goodwin - 3
little Goodwin - 1
Round -1
Little Ganzey -1
Ganzey - 3 (at least)
Guay - 1
question, does land that can only be accessed by boat count if it has swamp touching on part of the "island" land stretching to main land (can not boat around)???? No names listed on Bizer charts

[Grady223]

Originally Posted by Pineedles

MikeM wanted to know, so I am assuming he's keeping count. Unless you're volunteering?

I have accepted the challenge, below is what we have so far. We have accounted for 35 islands and identified 591 residences on them. I am also keeping the acreage if anyone wants to add to what Argie's Wife has provided.

(SEE THE NEXT POST FOR THE LIST)

[Grady223]

This PDF attachment will be easier to read. Please give me whatever additional data you'd like to add. Also of some help would be to identifiy which of the same name islands are which (near what, what town, etc.)

[Orion]

Thanks for compiling Grady223! I was debating doing the same myself and you saved me the trouble.

Some quick fill-ins for # homes I know of:

Becky's Garden 0
Echo 0
Goose 0
Helen 1
Store 0

[Bear Islander]

Loon #1 (South of Pine) 1
Rock #1 (West of Bear) 1
Palmer (West of Bear) 1
Shepard (West of Bear) 1
Little Pine #1 (West of Bear) 0
Little Two Mile 1
Little Beaver 1
Middle Beaver 1
Big Beaver 7
Beaver 1
Penney #1 (SW of Bear) 1
Penney #2 (SW of Bear) 1
Note:Penney Island is one island with two homes, or two islands with one home each, depending on your point of view (and water level). The lake level was lower when most islands were named.



Trivia Question: Name an island with the same name as the person that owns it. (Trust names don't count)

[Sunset Bob]

Trivia Question: Name an island with the same name as the person that owns it. (Trust names don't count)[/QUOTE]

Beaver Island
John Beaver

[Sunset Bob]

Originally Posted by Sunset Bob

Trivia Question: Name an island with the same name as the person that owns it. (Trust names don't count)

Beaver Island
John Beaver[/QUOTE]

OK I am wrong John Beaver doesn't own the whole Island but there is a John Beaver on Beaver Island.
( per PBS show Just Up The Road By Boat)

[Bear Islander]

Bob

You get partial credit for that answer.

There is at least one other.

[chipj29]

Originally Posted by Sunset Bob

Trivia Question: Name an island with the same name as the person that owns it. (Trust names don't count)

I never knew there was a "Chip Island".
Now that I know it is there, I need to do 2 things:
1. Find it
2. Live there

[chipj29]

Originally Posted by chipj29

I never knew there was a "Chip Island".
Now that I know it is there, I need to do 2 things:
1. Find it
2. Live there

I can check #1 off my list, a quick google search showed me exactly where it was.
Now I need a new #1...go there in person.

[Mike M.]

I appreciate all of the responses! I was looking for a ballpark number but this is great.

Thank you Grady for compiling a list of the responses so far.

[ghfromaltonbay]

Although the pedestrian bridge was replaced in the 1960's by a driveway from Sandy Point, the Loon Island in Alton Bay (don't know which # this is in the listing ) has 1 private residence.

[Senter Cove Guy]

Store Island - 0
Gem Island - 1
East Twin Island - 1
Gun Island - 0
Poplar Island - 0
Joe's Island - 0
Loon Island - 0

[Grady223]

Originally Posted by Senter Cove Guy

Store Island - 0
Gem Island - 1
East Twin Island - 1
Gun Island - 0
Poplar Island - 0
Joe's Island - 0
Loon Island - 0

Thanks, which Loon? Where is it?

[Senter Cove Guy]

Originally Posted by Grady223

Thanks, which Loon? Where is it?

Just slightly north of Joe's Island in Moultonborough Bay.

[Pine Island Guy]

Goose Island between Pine and Y-Landing has a single house

PIG

[Just Sold]

Not sure if it is Little Pine Island 1, 2 or 3 but it is at the entrance to Lee's Mill. My lake maps only list it as Little Pine Is. One cottage there.
http://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopo...992&ppuser=628

[Pineedles]

Grady223

Update: Half Mile #2 Island house or cabin population of this island is: 0 (Goat skeletons too many to count).

You have my apprecition and respect for taking on this task. It is a fool's mission that we all are doing, but it will keep us busy till the snow flys.

[Orion]

Originally Posted by Pine Island Guy

Goose Island between Pine and Y-Landing has a single house

There's a small Goose I. in Braun Bay with no house.

[Grady223]

Originally Posted by Pine Island Guy

Goose Island between Pine and Y-Landing has a single house

PIG

How does this relate to the Goose Island in Braun Bay which has no house? Is one of these perhaps Goose Egg Rock Island? Or are there 2 Goose Islands and one was not originally listed on Aggie's Wife's list?

[Orion]

Originally Posted by Grady223

How does this relate to the Goose Island in Braun Bay which has no house? Is one of these perhaps Goose Egg Rock Island? Or are there 2 Goose Islands and one was not originally listed on Aggie's Wife's list?

Grady223, The green chart just shows it as Goose I. near the north shore of Braun Bay. Too small for a house.

[Pineedles]

Isn't it amazing once something that is a given, isn't what it appears to be? LET THE SEARCH CONTINUE!