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Corbin Park (also known as the Blue Mountain Forest and Game Preserve) is a private game reserve in New Hampshire. It contains land in Croydon , Cornish , Plainfield , and Grantham . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It occupies somewhere between 24,000 and 26,000 acres (97 and 105 km 2 ) of land [ 3 ] and was started in 1889 by businessman Austin Corbin . [ 1 ]
Croydon is home to Corbin Park, one of the largest private game reserves in New England. The 24,000-acre (9,700 ha) fenced-in expanse of woodlands and mountainous terrain features bison, European boar and elk and extends into neighboring towns. [8]
The eastern part of the town is a portion of the approximately 25,000-acre (100 km 2) Blue Mountain Forest Association private game preserve, also known locally as Corbin Park, named after its founder, Austin Corbin.
Corbin built his large New Hampshire estate, and bought out his neighbors’ farms to create an 22,000 acre wildlife game preserve, which became a prestigious private hunting park and hosted notable guests, including Theodore Roosevelt, the Prince of Wales, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Joe Dimaggio, Rudyard Kipling, and Augustus Saint Gaudens.") [12 ...
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In 1904 he was appointed conservator of the Corbin Park buffalo reserve on the edge of the Blue Mountain Forest in New Hampshire, by Austin Corbin Jr. (d.1938), whose father the banker and railroad entrepreneur Austin Corbin (1827-1896) had established it. [1]
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This is a list of New Hampshire state forests. [1] ... Park name Location (of main entrance) Area Abbott State Forest: Concord: 35 acres (14 ha) Agnew State Forest: