Medford Gets First Golf Country Club in 1911

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In the early 1900s, a group of affluent businessmen who had come to the Rogue Valley during the orchard boom, decided to form a golf club. The Medford Golf and Country Club opened in 1911 on Hillcrest Road east of town with tennis courts, a skeet range, c

Episode

2079

Date

Thu, 02/07/2013 - 16:00

Author

Dennis M. Powers