Country Club Park
Beside the Washtenaw Country Club, founded in 1899 with three tomato cans in a hay field
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About Country Club Park
Country Club Park is a residential neighborhood just west of the City of Ypsilanti, taking its name from the Washtenaw Country Club it adjoins, with Country Club Park itself close at hand. The club was founded in 1899 and is among the oldest in Michigan.
For what the club's change of ownership has meant on these streets, ask me.
- —Founded in 1899 by Cora Henry, I. Newton Swift and Daniel L. Quirk Jr., with three tomato cans in a hay field
- —A year later fifteen men from Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor formed the Washtenaw Country Club in Ypsilanti Township
- —Private for most of its history; a 2019 ownership change opened it as a public course
- —Living here confers no membership — the name is geography
- —A commercially operated course is the least durable tier of protected open space
Founded with three tomato cans
In 1899 three people — Cora Henry, I. Newton Swift and Daniel L. Quirk Jr. — persuaded a local farmer to let them push three empty tomato cans into his freshly cut hay field west of the city, and invited their friends over for a game. It went well enough that a year later fifteen men from Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor formed the Washtenaw Country Club in Ypsilanti Township. That makes it one of the oldest clubs in the state.
The part that matters to a neighboring property owner is more recent. The club was private for most of its history, and an ownership change in 2019 opened it as a public course.
That is a change in the character of a neighbor rather than trivia. A private club and a public daily-fee course generate different volumes of traffic, different patterns through the day and week, and a different relationship with the surrounding streets — and the change is recent enough that long-standing owners will have opinions worth hearing.
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