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Woodmont was designed in 1891 by Quaker architect William Lightfoot Price in the French Gothic style for Alan Wood, Jr., a steel magnate and former U.S. Congressman. Overlooking the Schuylkill River , the industrial town of Conshohocken, Pennsylvania , and the Alan Wood Iron & Steel Company plant, the chateauesque mansion was completed in 1894 ...
Founded as the Beaver Dam Golf and Country Club in 1923, it was renamed the Prince George's Golf and Country Club in 1941. In 1979 its golf course, designed by Donald Ross , was purchased by the Maryland National Capitol Park and Planning Commission, precipitating the move to its present location.
A sectional chart is a two-sided chart created from a Lambert Conformal Conic Projection [1] with two defined standard parallels. The scale is 1:500,000, with a contour interval of 500 feet. The size of each sectional is designed to be "arm's width" when completely unfolded.
Aerial view of a golf course (Golfplatz Wittenbeck at the Baltic Sea, Germany)A golf course is the grounds on which the sport of golf is played. It consists of a series of holes, each consisting of a tee box, a fairway, the rough and other hazards, and a green with a cylindrical hole in the ground, known as a "cup".
The club features golf, curling and tennis facilities. The club was founded in 1929 by members of the Grand River Golf and Country Club. The club was officially opened in 1931, and its golf course architect was Stanley Thompson. The curling facility was opened in 1963 and a tennis facility in 1977. [citation needed]
Oakmont Country Club is a country club in the eastern United States, located mostly in Plum with only a very small portion of the property located in Oakmont, suburbs of Pittsburgh in western Pennsylvania. Established 122 years ago in 1903, its golf course is regarded as the "oldest top-ranked golf course in the United States."
Golfing at the club, c. 1920. The club currently has 338 acres (0.5 sq mi) and a 27-hole golf course with tree-limb footbridges. [3] Facilities include the main clubhouse, a pool complex, ten Har-Tru tennis courts, four aluminum heated platform tennis courts, four squash courts, eighteen guest rooms, skeet and trap areas, a 45-horse boarding facility, twenty paddocks, a large indoor riding ...
The average household size was 2.30, and the average family size was 2.92. In the CDP, 21.8% of the population was under the age of 18, 4.6% from 18 to 24, 29.2% from 25 to 44, 27.1% from 45 to 64, and 17.2% was 65 years of age or older.