TYNGSBOROUGH!

Tyngsborough is a town that I end up passing through to get to anywhere in New Hampshire. It lies right on the banks of the beautiful Merrimack River. Tyngsborough shares a border with Nashua, NH, and has a funny story behind its mall. Now the Pheasant Lane Mall is a mall thats located mere feet from the Massachusetts border, with the parking lot lying halfway into Tyngsborough. The story goes that the mall was planned to be built with the retail side lying in Nashua, where there is no sales tax, and the food court lie in Tyngsborough, where the food tax is lower, making it a taxless paradise. But the Massachusetts government decided that if that happened, all the stores would have to pay taxes to Massachusetts, even if a majority of the mall was in New Hampshire. Then, when the mall was finally built, the state lines were incorrectly drawn up, placing a small corner of JC Penny in Massachusetts. Because of this, Massachusetts declared the entire mall to be subject to Massachusetts sales tax. In response to the Massachusetts government, the mall had the store carefully rebuilt, leading to the stores pentagonal shape, with the edge of the store mere feet out of Massachusetts. Thanks Tyngsborough!