Blackduck

Blackduck

Total cost of the Project: $35,235.00

Amount Allocated: $15,359

Date: started: April 13, 1936

Date Finished: July 1939

Architect: Blackduck golf committee headed up by Dr. S.L. Conley (dentist)

Number of holes: 9

This is what a golf project could do, the local paper reported that after the initial crew of 20 had done a lot of work clearing the land, especially in dynamiting large pine stumps, an extra 20 men were rushed to the job. They were supposed to work on graveling the county roads, but the frost hadn’t left the ground. The extra men would work on additional fairways during the two pay-periods they had before resuming the graveling project.

By next spring (May 1937), there was a general call to local anyone who was interested in golf to meet. The orgainizers were desierous of having a good turnout of local businessmen and resort men at the meeting.

How did it all get started? Again, local golf enthusiasts bought 70 acres of land in 1935 with the hope it could be a golf course. They turned it over to the city of Blackduck in early January 1936. It appears some work had already been done clearing the land under the CWA. The meeting that talked about this was called by the chair of the civic affairs committee of the Blackduck Community Club. Local history indicates a meeting in May 1933, titled, "Golf Course Here is a Possibility.”

The record is not clear, but the golf course clubhouse, which the WPA also built, might have been moved from a state camp to the golf course. The picture below, from a postcard around 1940, sure looks like a WPA project.