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Old 09-10-2014, 11:19 AM   #1
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Default Real Estate For Sale 1913 Advertisement

What a great investment this would have been back in 1913!
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Old 09-10-2014, 12:30 PM   #2
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Default It sure would be

That would come out to around $300K in today's dollars, for 100+ acres on the island.
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Old 09-10-2014, 04:59 PM   #3
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What would a 16 room house, with two outbuildings, a barn, on 115 acres of waterfront in Meredith Bay be worth today??? OMG! What a great article, thanks for sharing.
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Old 09-11-2014, 07:58 AM   #4
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What a great investment this would have been back in 1913!
100 years from now people will be saying the same thing about today's prices.

They ain't makin' no mo' lakefront property.
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Default Details behind the ad for Bear Is. land

The land on Bear is found south of the Carry but includes the cove on the north side of the island. It was put on the market by members of the Gilman family that gradually took ownership of it beginning in the mid-1860s. The Gilman's were very early settlers in Meredith and well off. They moved to the neck in the early 1800s. They used the Bear property for grazing. The land was passed down to heirs on at least three occasions before this ad came out. It had just passed into the hands of Ellen Lil (Gilman) Prescott when she put it on the market. She was living in Oakland, CA. The NH Historical Society has a short, undated brochure advertising the same property. It talks about NH as 'the Switzerland of America', and it attaches California place names (e.g. Half Moon Bay) to the island to glamorize it. The property was ultimately sold to two gentlemen named Hoban and Link c. 1926.

The other land referenced in the ad belonged to the well known Gilman family on Meredith Neck. It included, I believe, the house that Bob Montana, of Archie fame, owned. The Gilman family cemetery is fairly close by on the left as one drives out on the Neck road.
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