Through a District Grant in the 2023-2024 year, our club will collaborating with the Stow Historical Society to to preserve the historical significance of the former Mapledale Country Club, now Stow Acres Country Club, in Stow MA. Mapledale was owned and operated by Robert H. Hawkins, a black businessman who opened the course in 1926. It was the first black-owned golf course in the USA, at a time when black golfers were not able to play at golf courses due to segregation. Our club will be installing a set of kiosks at various locations throughout the golf course. Those kiosks will display information about Mapledale and it's founding.
For more information on this project and the related history, see this youtube video (12 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trEzfbdZlKc or these web pages https://sites.google.com/view/rediscovermapledale/home
https://www.stow-ma.gov/planning-board/pages/history-stow-acres-country-club.
The image is from a newspaper around the time of the opening of Mapledale.
For more information on this project and the related history, see this youtube video (12 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trEzfbdZlKc or these web pages https://sites.google.com/view/rediscovermapledale/home
https://www.stow-ma.gov/planning-board/pages/history-stow-acres-country-club.
The image is from a newspaper around the time of the opening of Mapledale.