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Sven Nilsen

Possible Missing Links: Oakland Beach Golf Club, Warwick, RI
« on: September 12, 2012, 12:25:22 PM »
I stumbled across a notation of the Oakland Beach Golf Club in Rhode Island in the Harpers Guide of 1900.  Oakland Beach is a section of Warwick, and if you do a Google Map search there is a portion of land near Steven O'Connor Blvd (map url copied below) that looks like a grassed area that could be a couple of old golf holes.

Is anyone from RI familiar with the area, or familiar with a course that may have existed in the area?

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=images&q=oakland+beach+ri&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x89e44d97d9538793:0x9a89a91b6b8b965b,Oakland+Beach,+RI&gl=us&ei=qbJQUJWAGqKFywG1yoGYBw&sqi=2&ved=0CJ8BELYD
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Joe Bausch

Re: Possible Missing Links: Oakland Beach Golf Club, Warwick, RI
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2012, 12:32:06 PM »
A quick search of my archives and the typical online sites I have access to has turned up nothing on "Oakland Beach Golf Club".
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Mark Bourgeois

Re: Possible Missing Links: Oakland Beach Golf Club, Warwick, RI
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2012, 07:57:45 PM »
Nothing in that neighborhood as of 1939.
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Jim_Kennedy

Re: Possible Missing Links: Oakland Beach Golf Club, Warwick, RI New
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2012, 09:24:40 PM »
Sounds like the golf course was at the hotel. It burned in 1903, but not completely, and was rebuilt.



...and here's a website/w drawings and postcards of the general area and the hotel, which was located at the water's edge on the OB peninsula.

http://mrsgussdoughboys.com/?page_id=49
« Last Edit: September 12, 2012, 09:30:56 PM by Jim_Kennedy »
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