CLUB HISTORY
There is a searchable website of many of the old Newspapers published in New York State called Old Fulton NY Post Cards. The following is the
second oldest article I found about The East Aurora Country Club.
BUFFALO EVENING NEWS: THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1916.
PLANS PROGRESS FOR EAST AURORA’S FESTIVAL
Country Club Announces New Golf Links Will Be Ready Saturday.
EAST AURORA, July 27 • (Special).
—The Country club circulated good news today by announcing that Old Home week and firemen’s convention would be recognized by opening five holes of the new golf course for play on August 1, the day the convention opens. Local and Buffalo enthusiasts have been spending $25,000 this spring building a Country club and golf course, and although it is not finished, the people are going to enjoy part of it next week.
The course is in the process of building and seven holes have been finished, although the greens on only five boles are fit for use. There will be an informal gathering of members and stockholders of the East Aurora Country club at the golf course Saturday afternoon, and at that time the course will be inspected and declared ready for play on part of it.
The club house is in the course of erection, and will be completed and ready for use by September 1.
The grounds of the new Country club cover 140 acres, and are located on Pine Street, three-fourths of a mile from the corner of Main Street. Mayor Alfred Brotherhood is president of the club, and he, together with George S. Kellogg, Fay H. Ball. Perry E. Wurst, George H. Van Keuren, George E. Merrill, Abbott S. Griggs. Richard S. Persons, Henry H. Persons, Judge Herbert P. Bissell and many other business and professional men of the corporation, and also from Buffalo, have been guiding the affairs of the club, and attending to the construction of it.
John W. Harrison of Buffalo laid out the course, and other experts who have looked over the grounds pronounce it one of the best naturally located courses in this section of the country. The soil is a mixture of gravel and loam, according to topographical lay at any particular point, and is very hilly. The high knoll upon which the club house is being built overlooks the village. There is a small lake on the property and some woodland.