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The golf course at the Buckwood Inn was the first to be designed by A. W. Tillinghast, a renowned golf course architect. [1] [10] In 1919 the resort was a host site for a U.S. Women's Amateur won by Alexa Stirling. [8] John D. Rockefeller stopped over to play golf at the Buckwood Inn in 1920. [11]
The Shawnee Open was a golf tournament that was first held in 1912. It was played at The Shawnee Inn & Golf Resort in Smithfield Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. The course was completed in 1911, the first design by renowned architect A. W. Tillinghast. [1] The Shawnee Open was recognized as a PGA Tour event from 1916 to 1937.
He named the house "Manwalamink", after the nearby island. In 1898, the Depuy family sold the home to Charles Campbell Worthington, a New York businessman who built the Inn and Gatehouse. [14] The site of the original stockade is slightly southwest, and no signs remain. [15] The Shawnee Inn & Golf Resort is located on the site of Depuy's farm.
Waring was a cartoon and comic strip collector. A Penn State meeting room by the West Wing restaurant has dozens of cartoons drawn by artists such as Al Hirschfeld in Waring's honor. From 1943 to 1974, Waring owned the Shawnee Inn and Country Club, a golf resort located at Shawnee on Delaware, Pennsylvania near Stroudsburg.
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Shawnee on Delaware is an unincorporated community on the Delaware River, part of Smithfield Township in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is situated just south of the foothills of the Pocono Mountains, 2.6 miles (4.2 km) southwest of the Shawnee Mountain Ski Area and approximately 75 miles (121 km) west of New York City.
He built his first small golf course around 1898. [9] In 1903, he purchased 8,000 acres (3,200 ha) of land of both sides of the Delaware River. He built Buckwood Lodge, a small mansion, on the side of Kittatinny Ridge in Pennsylvania, between the river and Sunfish Pond, a small lake higher up the ridge covering 258 acres (104 ha). Worthington ...
Shawnee Mountain, located in the Poconos region of Pennsylvania, was established in 1975. The idea for the ski resort emerged from developer Karl Hope's need to supplement his existing summer investments in the area. [7] Hope owned The Shawnee Inn and had various ventures on the Delaware River. To create a year-round attraction, Hope decided to ...