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Highland Country Club (NLE) in Meriden/Middletown, CT

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Ronald Montesano:
My bro-in-law, who got flummoxed at Ravenwood with the GCA banter of Yo, JNC and KLynch, sent me this link to an NLE course south of Hartford.

http://middletown-ct.patch.com/articles/highland-country-club-a-slice-of-westfield-history

There's also this:

http://www.huntermensclub.org/History.html

Anything to add, Tony, Brad, et al?

Jim_Kennedy:
Ron,

Here's the 1934 aerial. It's in AP's backyard,  he has more info.
 
http://tinyurl.com/6s4cdkh


I have a book around somewhere that the Rev. Mark Jette, a friend of Tony's and a real nice guy (the Rev, not AP  ;),  wrote that includes info about the course. I think he found that it was the oldest in the town.

Sven Nilsen:
Add one more to the Robert Pryde column.

Highland CC was an offshoot of the Meriden GC (from the Oct. 1909 edition of Golf Magazine).

Jim_Kennedy:
Nice find Sven.

My old post said it was the first course in Meriden, but I'm pretty sure it was the third. The first was called Bartlett Links, the second Bradley Park, and then Highland, which was actually located just over the Middletown border in the Westfield section of that city.
My best understanding is that all of these courses were under the helm of The Meriden Golf Club. Their clubhouse at the Bradley Park links is used today as private residence:




Here's the flame engulfed Highland Hotel that was renovated for the Meriden Golf Club to use as their clubhouse at the Highland CC site:



They did rebuild after the fire, but I don't know of that one still stands.

Hopefully Tony Pioppi will chime in if he sees this.

Bret Lawrence:
Jim,

In the 1901 Harpers Official Golf Guide there are two courses listed under Meriden. 
The Meriden Golf Club founded in May 1899 and The Parker Park Golf Club founded in May 1900.
 
I'm not sure how long The Parker Park Golf Club lasted, but they had 90 members in 1900, compared to Meriden Golf Clubs' 187.
The 1901 Golf Guide also listed R.D. Pryde as the greenskeeper for the Meriden Golf Club.  He must have been splitting his time between Meriden and New Haven Golf Club?

I also found an article in the Hartford Courant, discussing the folding of the Arawana Golf Club of Middletown in 1910.  The article noted that many members chose to join the young Highland Country Club, preferring to help that club along rather than construct a new links closer to the city that was sure to run into doubtful support.

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