Corbin Park Hunting Preserve in New Hampshire
Well if anybody knows anything else of interest about Corbin Park, please post it in the comments below. It’s certainly an interesting place and I can only imagine what it would be like to have a tour of it or even to see some photos of it. I found one photo via Google Books, after you click the link scroll down and you can see some Buffalo in the park. It’s a very old photo though.
Corbin Park members are welcome to share their thoughts as well should they bump into this blog entry via Google or whatever.
Edit: In that other discussion thread I linked to above there is contact information and apparently you can visit there once per year or something.
Here is the contact information:
Blue Mountain Forest Association at 603-863-3250
Gerald Merrill
Blue Mountain Forest Association
P. O. Box 487
Newport, NH 03773
Apparently you have to pay a $50 fee to go in and see the park though. I think I am going to check it out as it might be neat to go there one day.
Edit 2: Here are some photos and video of Corbin Park Hunting Preserve. I visited and got some video and photos of the gates and grounds. I could not get inside obviously but here’s a bit of what I found when visiting. I’ve also included a few photos of the gates and the street signs near the entrance of the park. At some point I’d love to go inside and see what it looks like.
Click on the pics for a larger, clearer version.
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Please note that the domain for my web site mentioned here has changed:
http://www.meyette.us/CorbinPark.htm
The link has been changed. Thanks for the heads up!
This place is fantastic. My grandfather managed this land when I was growing up. It’s really something to see when you wake up in the morning and there are wild boar grazing on the front lawn.
My Grandfather,William Freeman Jenney, was a hunting guide and caretaker at Corbins Park from its inception in 1890 into and perhaps through the 1920′s. While bedridden prior to his death in 1943, my Grandfather wrote extensively about his adventures and experiences working in the park, and from these writings, conveyed 6 chapters of his book to my mother, who later in life gave them to me, in the hopes that they could be published someday. Now in retirement, for fun and possible profit, I have sought the consul of a self publishing consultation service to produce a compilation of my Grandfather’s first person accounts of his experiences in the Park, with original pictures of himself and my Mother with wild boar he shot as part of his job when the boar escaped from the park (he shot 19 boar over two winters applying various ingenious hunting techniques depicted in his chapter “Hogs on the Loose”. The book I produce will also include biographical information on my Grandfather and mt Uncle Bill’s detailed account of the successful mink farming business he and my Grandfather engaged in beginning with a female mink my Grandfather trapped in Corbins Park. Upon your review of my intentions to publish the book described I would appreciate your feedback as it relates to the marketabilty of such a venture.
@ DCH:
Please note my Sept. 18th entry to the Corbins Park blog. It seems we have things in common. I welcome your reply.
Craig, that sounds like a wonderful book! I hope you get it published. Please make sure you post a link to the book here when you do. Have you considered publishing it as an ebook through Amazon.com or something like that?
Here are some instructions:
http://www.ehow.com/how_5416301_publish-ebook-amazoncom.html
And here’s a link to Amazon’s site about it:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/104-7227968-9547934?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200038060
I hope I get a chance to read your grandfather’s book. Thanks for posting about it.
Jim, Thanks for your interest, advise, and ready response to my blog. Finances permitting, I am planning to purhase a quite comprehensive publishing package from AuthorHouse later in the fall, or early next year. The package I could afford includes hook-ups with google and Amazon search machines, but in the meantime, the information you provided enables my research before the fact. For your interest, and for others who may peruse our blogs, I have prepared chapter by chapter synapses of the books 6 chapters.
Title: Blue Mountain Bill
Chapter I: ” How It Came To Be”. A historic sketch on the orgins of Corbins Park and the life and death if Austin Corbin II.
Chapter II: : ” Old Goggle Eyes”. A humorous tale of “Uncle Bill” as hunting guide for an elderly gentleman friend of an early Club member out to bag a bull elk, who wore spectacles with glass 1/2″ thick, and carrying a rifle, large hunting knife, and large bag containing food and a bottle of whisky, which he consumed at every juncture. Half blind and drunk when he shot 5 times at a trophy bull elk, the elk finally went down. As he ends the story about the slain elk, Uncle Bill reports, ” Thats ’bout all there is to it fellers, ‘cept the funny part of it was that Old Goggle Eyes, who could’nt see nothin, never knew that I shot my gun. Its better so, ain’t it?”.
Chapter III: ” The Buffalo”. Uncle Bill takes the narrator to feed the Park’s buffaloes. A fascinating account featuring a ” how to do” on crating buffaloes for transport to city zoos, and historic sketches on Ernest Harold Bayne’s semi-successful efforts to training growing calf buffaloes to wear a yoke and pull a wagon, and Mr. Corbin’s totally unsuccessful attempts to breed black domestic cows imported from Scotland with “Ol’ Cleveland” (the bulls in the Park were named after the Presidents).
Chapter IV: “Over the Fence”. Uncle Bill, the private investigator tangling with poachers taking deer and elk out of the Park. Dangerous encounters
, tough poachers from the Meridan side of the fence, and knocked out with a poacher’s gun barrel, Uncle Bill pursues and makes private settlement with a doctor accomplice in “one of them big cities down country”.
Chapter V: ” Wild Hogs on the Loose”. Venison dinner at Uncle Bill’s, with the full story of how he bagged 19 European wild boars who escaped the Park over two winters circa 1915-1916. Day and night stalking excursions, baiting and shooting from his bedroom window with 8 rifles at once, and in dead pursuit out of their den on snowshoes in deep snow, this is the “how to do” on hunting the elusive and rangy European wild boar.
Chapter VI: ” Honey Bee Fever”. A slight departure from the rest. Uncle Bill Barton, jack of all trades in the pre-depression era, and especially thereafter, was also a beekeeper, whose uncanny instinct for the ways of nature enabled to use the flight patterns of wild bees to find bee trees and extract the Queens for his own hives and production of honey (the bee swarms would follow the Queens). This is the A-Z on wild bee interactions and hierarchies.
Craig A Wilson Editor and Publisher. http://WWW.lagnab@verizon.net
@ DCH:
Nieland?
I used to drive by the house as a teenager in the late 50′s, early 60′s. We called it the “psycho house”-great to see pictures of it now. Corbin Park was where Gov. Merrill was told about some escapades relating to Judge John Fairbanks-he denied being told but it did eventually come out in the courts. I was the first known person to complain about the judge. Great website!
I have heard about Corbin Park for many years. Never realized how large it was. Don’t like these places and what they do or what they stand for. Just plain organized slaughter so someone with lots of money can have a head to hang on a wall somewhere. Whatever!