The Original Nine
L Michael Gouveia, DMD • May 7, 2020
The Original Nine Voted That Jerih Smith Jr., S. T. Pierce, and Fredrick D. Stetson constitute a committee to lay out golf links on the Club grounds.*5 Thus began the process of building a new golf course for the the city of New Bedford when our founders relocated to Dartmouth in 1902. The BOG Minutes describe the original property acquired ... “for the sum of $12,000, for the purchase of the Club, a tract of land in Dartmouth containing approximately 86 acres, bounded by Kempton Street, Slocum


