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The Kingston Stockade District is an eight-block area in the western section of Kingston, New York, United States, commonly referred to as Uptown Kingston. It is the original site of the mid-17th century Dutch settlement of Wiltwyck, which was later renamed Kingston when it passed to English control .
It is 91 miles (146 km) north of New York City and 59 miles (95 km) south of Albany. The city's metropolitan area is grouped with the New York metropolitan area around Manhattan by the United States Census Bureau. [2] The population was 24,069 at the 2020 United States Census. [3] Kingston became New York's first capital in 1777.
Meadowbrook Golf Club [54] 1960 Doug Ford: Al Brosch: Winged Foot Golf Club [55] 1959 Doug Ford: 280 E 1 stroke Al Brosch: Rockaway Hunting Club [56] 1958 Doug Ford: 278 2 strokes Mickey Homa Briar Hall Country Club [57] 1957 Doug Ford: 210 1 stroke Al Feminelli Bill Collins. Concord International Golf Club [58] 1956 Bill Collins: 285 +1 3 ...
Founded as a Jewish country club, [4] the club has an 18-hole championship golf course which hosted the PGA Championship in 1919 and the U.S. Amateur in 1920. The competitions were won by Jim Barnes and Chick Evans, respectively. [5] [6] Herbert Strong was the architect of the original golf course and Devereux Emmet remodeled part of the course ...
Paramount Country Club is located on land originally bought by Paramount Pictures founder Adolf Zukor in 1918, from Lawrence Abraham.Zukor expanded this estate, commissioning noted golf course architect A.W. Tillinghast to build an eighteen-hole golf course on the property, which opened in 1920.
Pomonok Country Club was a country club in the northeastern United States, located in what is now the Pomonok neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens.The golf course was located between Kissena Boulevard and 164th Street, just to the south of Horace Harding Boulevard (now the Long Island Expressway) and to the east of Queens College.
The private club eventually fell into bankruptcy and was purchased by New York State in 1978. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The large area of land within the golf course south of the fifth and sixth holes was originally planned to be developed with a series of condominium complexes similar in design to the Villas of Montauk Downs on Fairway Place, a 24-unit ...
Two-time PGA Champion Paul Runyan, who played the 1936 Metropolitan Open at Quaker, said that Quaker Ridge "is the greatest golf course in the world." [4] In 2008, Golf Digest rated Quaker Ridge the 30th best course in the United States. [5] The course was also ranked 64th in the world in 2007 by Golf Magazine. [3]