"Country Club" at Woodmansie ?????

[Teegate]

What does anyone know about a Country Club at Woodmansie? It is marked on the present Woodmansie Quad but not on the 1949 quad of the area. I seem to remember reading something about it, but can't remember where I read it. I believe it never materialized and for that reason it should not be on the quad. I am trying to find info on it to notify the USGS when I submit this quad to them.

http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4413120&e=545355&size=s&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25


Guy

 

[BEHR655]

What does anyone know about a Country Club at Woodmansie? It is marked on the present Woodmansie Quad but not on the 1949 quad of the area. I seem to remember reading something about it, but can't remember where I read it. I believe it never materialized and for that reason it should not be on the quad. I am trying to find info on it to notify the USGS when I submit this quad to them.

http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4413120&e=545355&size=s&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25


Guy

That is odd. Funny that I never noticed it before.

 

[Ben Ruset]

I bet it was a gun club, just like the "sportsmen's club" in the FRM is labeled as such instead of "gun club" like most others get called.

 

[Teegate]

I bet it was a gun club, just like the "sportsmen's club" in the FRM is labeled as such instead of "gun club" like most others get called.

Could be. So far that is the best explanation.

Guy

 

[stizkidz]

Wasn't there a country club in Chatsworth in the early 1900s?

 

[Ben Ruset]

I may take a ride out there tomorrow.

 

[Teegate]

Wasn't there a country club in Chatsworth in the early 1900s?

Yes, but it was at Chatsworth only from all accounts that I read.

Also, so far all the quads I have from years ago does not mention it. That would leave me to believe that Ben's theory is correct.

Sportsman Club

http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4408468.00011489&e=561554.000000019&datum=nad83

and Country Club.

http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=18&n=4413081&e=545504&s=25&size=s&datum=nad83&layer=DRG25

Both of them seem to be associated with the dwelling next to the text which in both instances are hunting clubs.

Guy

 

[Teegate]

I am bringing this very old thread back for the dead to add a little information. We know the Woodmansie Country Club was there back in 1930 because of the below info.

The caretaker of the Woodmansie Country Club in 1930 was William Farrington age 70. He rents the place for $10 a month. He is single and was born in PA as were his parents.

Guy

 

[Ben Ruset]

So I've been playing with Wolfram Alpha, and according to it, $10 in 1930 dollars is only $137 per month. I need rent like that!

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=$10+in+1930+dollars

 

[Boyd]

That might be a little too simplistic to just use the CPI. If he was the caretaker, the lodging was probably part of his whole package. And Woodmansie would have been a really remote market back then where renters would have low paying jobs that wouldn't support very high rents.