There are several different historic country clubs in Dayton, Ohio including the Miami Valley Golf Club, the Dayton Country Club, and the Walnut Grove and Moraine Country Clubs. These country clubs and golf clubs provided entertainment and fun for Dayton families. In fact, in a newspaper article from 1971, the president of the Walnut Grove Country Club, William Blankenship, claimed to thrive on the fact that his club was indeed family oriented. They offered swimming instructions for young members to take while their parents golfed, good food, affordable family membership prices, and even occasional redecoration to keep things interesting.
The Walnut Grove Country Club was established in 1928 by Alva D. Wenrick, who had first wanted to turn the land into a health center. When that idea did not work out for him, he created the Greenmont Country Club which would later become Walnut Grove after 1935. A swimming pool and golf pro shop were added in 1954 and 1958 respectively, with possible plans for a tennis court addition in 1971 and a new bath house in 1987. The club sits on an underground river called the Hamilton and once it was tapped into, the club had two of their own wells to water the golf greens.
The Dayton Country Club was established in 1897 as the Dayton Golf Club. It is the reported as the oldest continuously operating club west of the Alleghenies. The clubhouse is said to be the “poshest” buildings among all the clubs in Dayton after 1929 when it was rebuilt. In that year, the Dayton Country Clubhouse was greatly damaged by a fire after the boiler in the building overheated. The golf course was the first one designed by Donald Ross in Dayton, Ohio. In 1948, the course was remodeled by William Diddel of Indianapoli...
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The agency I chose to do is the Hillandale golf course, which is located in Durham North Carolina. The reason why I chose to do my project on Hillandale golf course because since the beginning of the semester I have been traveling over to the golf course twice a week for a class learning the rules and the way the game of golf is played. Hillandale golf course is named the “Granddaddy golf course of Durham/ Research Triangle golf”. Hillandale was donated to the Durham area back in 1911 through the philanthropic interests of long-time Durham resident John Sprunt Hill. Donald Ross and Perry Maxwell originally designed the course. Donald Ross had designed the first 9 holes and Perry Maxwell came up with the last 9 holes. Since 1960 over 1.7 million rounds of golf have been played that being an average of 45,000 yearly. This public golf course provides a challenge from each level of players in the game of golf. In 1960, the Hillandale Golf Course was moved to its current location in Durham and was redesigned by George Cobb, who is also the designer of the Surf Club in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
The oldest farm-house in the area is Joyce Farmhouse in Valerie Crescent, near Seven Hills. It was built in 1804 by William Joyce, destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1806, and used as an inn between 1811 and 1826. Joyce had received his 30 acre grant in about 1794.
The address for Moraine Farm is 1233 W. Stroop Rd (Sutherly Newsbank). It was home to the late Col. Edward Andrew Deeds (Sutherly Newsbank). Edward Deeds was part of the aviation program during WW1. Moraine Farm is 100 years old (this year)(Sutherly Newsbank). The property is approximately eight acres large (Sutherly Newsbank). Moraine Farm was part of a great time of engineering and development and continues to be a great place with a great future still ahead.
A review of his methodology shows the time and energy that entering this book. He uses a variety of sources for his research and evidence of good sources such as newspapers; memoirs; diaries; census figures; real estate listings; private letters and documents; journals and memoirs; public records and statements; the federal and local
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The house was built in 1917 by William Bowers Bourn, a San Francisco millionaire whose wealth came from gold mining . Construction of the large property took 2 years, while it took 12 years to build the formal gardens, which were completed in 1929. Its name was created by Bourn, using the first 2 letters from the key words of his credo: “Fight for a just cause; Love your fellow man; Live a good life.” After the deaths of Bourn and his wife in 1936, it was purchased by William Roth, another prominent San Franciscan, who pr...
Quinn, David Beers. Set Fair for Roanoke. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1985. Print.
In the summer of 1925, the quaint little town of Dayton, Tennessee would become the stage for the event that would soon become known as the “trial of the century” (Moran 2). What began as a test case to challenge the recently passed Butler Bill by the Tennessean legislature would quickly become about so much more than anyone would have imagined, especially high school biology teacher John Thomas Scopes. Religion versus science, Bryan versus Darrow, modernism versus fundamentalism, the Jazz Age, culture, urbanism, regionalism; all of the conflicts and issues present during this time would each have a major impact on The Scopes “Monkey” Trial.
One milestone in A.A’s history was in 1939. The Cleveland Plain Dealer carried a series of articles about A.A. supported by warm editorials. The Cleveland Group,...
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Charles Macdonald was an early founder of American golf. He recalled playing golf in the Chicago area as early as 1875. Another promoter of golf, a young man named Andrew Bell from Burlington, Iowa, was initially exposed to golf when he went to Scotland to attend the University of Edinburgh. Upon his return to the United States in 1883, he laid out four informal golf holes on the family farm and played a few rounds with his friends. In 1884 Colonel Hamilton Gillispie, a former Scotsman who went into the lumber business in Florida, was known to hit golf balls in a field that is now the main street of Sarasota (History of Golf 7). Also in 1884, the Oakhurst Golf Club was formed in North Carolina now famous for it’s first hole from the Club’s Homestead course, celebrated to...
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