In 2002, the Lakes Region Conservation Trust (LRCT) took on a $5.9M fundraising campaign to purchase the roughly 5,500 of 6,300 remaining acres of the original Lucknow estate purchased by Thomas Plant in the early 1910s. If this campaign failed, it is likely the property would have been developed by another purchaser and the Castle would not be the public resource it is today.
Check out NHPBS’s Windows to the Wild: Preserving a Way of Life to learn about this extraordinary effort. Then, be sure to learn more about the LRCT and their non-profit mission to preserve the beautiful lands of our region!
