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This category contains articles about golf clubs and courses in Virginia. Pages in category "Golf clubs and courses in Virginia" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Currahee Mountain is one of the landmarks [4] used in the Treaty of Hopewell. [5] It was also used by Benjamin Hawkins to run the Hawkins Line. [6] [7] On 12 October 1864, Confederate troops defeated Union troops at the Battle of Narrows, also called the Battle of Currahee, during the Civil War. Casualties were small and the wounded were cared ...
In 2013 Lake Chesdin Golf Club merged with Meadowbrook Country Club. The idea was to consolidate and help attract members to both clubs. The two formed an LLC called: Meadowbrook-Chesdin LLC. The LLC paid $1.2 million to purchase the 200 acres (81 ha) Chesdin course. The partnership ended in 2014 over financial concerns from the Chesdin club.
From an ethnicity and racial standpoint, College Hill is estimated to be 76.3% white, 7.4% Hispanic, 5.9% Black, 5.5% Asian, 4.6% Mixed, and 0.3% Other. [8] There are a total of 21,738 households in College Hill. 14,298 are family households and the average person per household is 2.63.
The club was founded in 1908, and its first clubhouse and Herbert Barker-designed golf course were completed in Richmond's Westhampton neighborhood in 1910. Its James River Course, designed by William Flynn , opened in 1928; it has hosted many prominent events, including the 1955 and 1975 U.S. Amateurs and, since 2016, the annual Dominion ...
The club was organized on October 24, 1900, as "Hermitage Golf Club" by Berkeley Williams and a number of other Richmond businessmen, making it the 4th oldest country club in Virginia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In July 1916, the group was incorporated as "Hermitage Country Club" after its application was approved by the State Corporation Commission .
The club was founded in 1925 as a nine-hole golf course on the 89-acre (0.36 km 2) Locust Hill farm of Frank Zornow in the Town of Henrietta, bordering the Town of Pittsford. In 1927, members purchased the 52-acre (0.21 km 2 ) Brei Farm on the south side of Jefferson Road in Pittsford, and it reopened as an 18-hole course in 1931, redesigned by ...
The eastern side of the peninsula was long occupied by low-density single-family homes, while the western side remained more industrial. This changed with the construction of Southbridge on the Potomac, a master-planned community of approximately 1,500 homes on 600 acres of land in southwestern Cherry Hill, founded in 1990 and built largely from the mid-1990s until the mid-2000s; River Oaks, a ...