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Pinehurst is an unincorporated village and census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Billerica, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 7,368 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] It is in the southeastern part of town along Massachusetts Route 3A .
Tufts was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts on February 11, 1835, to Leonard Tufts and Hepzebah Fosdick Tufts. [1] He was "an entrepreneur, inventor, and philanthropist. He rose from being a sixteen-year-old drug store apprentice to becoming a wealthy businessman who had the vision and determination to build Pinehurst, in only six months."
Pinehurst was founded by Boston soda fountain magnate James Walker Tufts. He purchased 5,500 acres (22 km 2) for approximately $1.25 per acre in 1895, and opened the Holly Inn New Year's Eve of that year. The first golf course was laid out in 1897-98, and the first championship held at Pinehurst was the United North and South Amateur ...
[21] His most widely known trademark is the crowned or "turtleback" green, most famously seen on Pinehurst No. 2, though golf architecture writer Ron Whitten argued in Golf Digest in 2005 that the effect had become exaggerated compared to Ross's intention because greenkeeping practices at Pinehurst had raised the center of the greens. [20]
William J. Devine Memorial Golf Course, Boston (re-design) Littlputt Links, Brookline (Indoor miniature golf) [3] Kernwood Country Club, Salem; Fresh Pond Golf Course, Cambridge; Ponkapoag Golf Course No. 1, Canton; Ponkapoag Golf Course No. 2 (Front 9 only), Canton; Cohasset Golf Club, Cohasset; Concord Country Club, Concord; Oak Hill Country ...
In the early 1630s, a Praying Indian village named Shawshin was at the current site of Billerica, [3] commonly spelled Shawsheen today, as in the Shawsheen River.In 1638, Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop and Lt. Governor Thomas Dudley were granted land along the Concord River in the area, and roughly a dozen families from Cambridge and Charlestown Village had begun to occupy Shawshin ...
Mystic Cottage is a historic U.S. home located at 105 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst, North Carolina.It was the first home of the Leonard Tufts family in Pinehurst. Tufts took over from father James Walker Tufts and was followed by son Richard Tufts, in running the Pinehurst Resort.
Resigned to become Collector of Customs for the Port of Boston: Vacant: June 30, 1921 – September 27, 1921 67th: Abram Andrew : Republican: September 27, 1921 – June 3, 1936 67th 68th 69th 70th 71st 72nd 73rd 74th: Elected to finish Lufkin's term. Re-elected in 1922. Re-elected in 1924. Re-elected in 1926. Re-elected in 1928. Re-elected in ...