Country Club is established in Brookline.

[10/24] Founded by J. Murray Forbes and others, The Country Club is located on a former farm and racetrack in the Clyde Park area. The first country club in the U.S., its purpose is to create “A rendezvous for a colony of congenial spirits.” Recreation offered includes shooting, tennis, and the riding and driving of horses. Golf is added in 1894 on a three-hole course, designed by Willie Campbell, which is subsequently expanded to 27 hole, and where Arthur Hunnewell makes the first hole-in-one in the U.S. in 1893. Long a bastion of the Yankee elite, the club admits its first Jewish member in the 1970s, it first woman to full membership in 1989, and its first African-American member in 1994.