[QUOTE=codeman671;202026]Just found the article:
Gilford selectmen OK demolition of Kimball Castle
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GILFORD — .............
The castle stayed in the Kimball family until 1960 when the last heir died. Charlotte Kimball stipulated that the property never be used for commercial purposes and left instructions and several hundred thousand dollars to set up and maintain and nature preserve.
The preserve was never created and in 1981 the N.H. Attorney General took control of the building and offered it to the town if they could save the castle and create a preserve.
"In 1990, the town convinced the Attorney General that the best way to carry out the goals of Charlotte Kimball's will was to remove the stipulation against commercial development on the land surrounding the castle and subdivide it off," reads the Kimball Castle site.
"The Town then created the Locke's Hill Nature Preserve on the remaining 260 acres and laid out hiking and skiing trails on it," it continues.
Within the past 10 years, Dunn said the town sold the property...........
(From Post #24)
Where is the Charlotte Kimball "Estate Will"? Stipulations AND several HUNDREDS of Thousands of dollars were left to care for the property?!!!!!? This is political FAILURE at its worst! There must be an accounting history as to how the money was spent or whose pocket it went into! Government can't do a darn thing right, this is pathetic! Am I missing something?
Sorry for the rant.
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