Summary
The South River Club is a social club located just south of Annapolis in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The name also refers to the group's clubhouse, which was built in 1742.
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 South River Club, July 2009 | |
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| Nearest city | South River, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 38°54′21″N 76°33′51″W / 38.90583°N 76.56417°W |
| Area | 0 acres (0 ha) |
| Built | 1742 |
| NRHP reference No. | 69000067[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 15, 1969 |
The club edit
The South River Club (also known as "The Old South River Club")[2] is one of the country's oldest, continuously active organizations of its type. Early records were lost when the first clubhouse burned down,[2] but there is evidence that the club existed in 1732 and perhaps as early as 1700.[3] Club records show that it existed before February 11, 1742, when a resolution was passed to attempt to record all previous members' names.[2] As early as 1746, the club was referred to as "The Ancient South River Club" in the Maryland Gazette.[2]
Early members included prominent landowners, merchants, and the local doctor and clergyman, all of whom lived within a 10-mile radius of the clubhouse.[3]
The members of the club meet at the clubhouse four times per year for feasts prepared in the detached kitchen.[4] Women are only allowed in the clubhouse on "Pilgrimage Days."[4]
The clubhouse edit
It is not clear where the first clubhouse stood.[2] There is speculation that it was in Londontowne, Maryland.[2]
The present structure was built in 1742 on land purchased from Captain Thomas Gassaway, son of Colonel Nicholas Gassaway.[5] It is a small frame, 1+1⁄2-story one-room clubhouse with a gable roof and a narrow exterior chimney on the east gable end.[3][4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.[1]
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References edit
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f Richardson, Hester Dorsey (1913). Side-lights on Maryland History: With Sketches of Early Maryland Families. Baltimore, Maryland: Williams and Wilkins Company. pp. 197–204.
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- ^ a b c Mrs. Preston Parish (May 1969). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: South River Club" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
- ^ a b c Historic American Buildings Survey, /Historic American Engineering Record. Vol. HABS No. MD-843. Washington, DC: Historic American Buildings Survey, National Park Service. p. 2.
- ^ Warfield, Joshua Dorsey, The founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland, Kohn & Pollack, Baltimore, MD 1905, P.199
- ^ Joshua Dorsey Warfield (1905). The founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland. Kohn & Pollock. pp. 95–.
External links edit
- South River Club, Anne Arundel County, including photo from 1967, at Maryland Historical Trust
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. MD-843, "South River Club, Solomons Island Road (State Route 2) vicinity, South River vicinity, Anne Arundel County, MD"
- Pitts, Jonathan (September 22, 2012). "Old South River Club has met for more than 320 years". The Baltimore Sun.