Washtenaw Country Club was once the only game in town for socializing, business deals
The Washtenaw Country Club has been one of the exclusive places to do business for years.Excerpt:In 1898, Ypsilantians Cora Henry, I. Newton Swift and Daniel L. Quirk Jr. persuaded a local farmer to let them stick three empty tomato cans in his freshly cut hay field west of the city and invited their friends over for a game of golf. The event was a hole-in-one, and 15 men from Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor formed the Washtenaw Country Club in Ypsilanti Township a year later.Eventually, the sheep that grazed on the greens were replaced with lawnmowers and the tomato cans with golf holes, and the small hay field became a private golf club. For more than a century, it attracted the top ranks of Washtenaw County business, professional and government leaders for play and socializing.Quirk, for example, later became mayor of Ypsilanti and president of Peninsular Paper, and his name appears on Quirk Auditorium at Eastern Michigan University.Read the rest of the story here.
The Washtenaw Country Club has been one of the exclusive places to do business for years.
Excerpt:
In 1898, Ypsilantians Cora Henry, I. Newton Swift and Daniel L. Quirk Jr. persuaded a local farmer to let them stick three empty tomato cans in his freshly cut hay field west of the city and invited their friends over for a game of golf.
The event was a hole-in-one, and 15 men from Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor formed the Washtenaw Country Club in Ypsilanti Township a year later.
Eventually, the sheep that grazed on the greens were replaced with lawnmowers and the tomato cans with golf holes, and the small hay field became a private golf club. For more than a century, it attracted the top ranks of Washtenaw County business, professional and government leaders for play and socializing.
Quirk, for example, later became mayor of Ypsilanti and president of Peninsular Paper, and his name appears on Quirk Auditorium at Eastern Michigan University.
Read the rest of the story here.
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