HISTORY OF ORANGE
who became sole owner. This course is run on the system of a municipal golf course, without regular membership, but players using it pay daily greens fees, and all guests are welcome.
Due to the very sudden and untimely death of Mr. Woodward, recently, the club is being maintained by his estate, with a manager in charge.
WEPAWAUG GOLF COURSE
This club was started in 1930, and most of its members are residents of Milford. It is known as an eighteen-hole course, although only thirteen holes have really been completed. The land is the property of the Associated Seed Growers and of Walter E. Clark, and is leased to the Club for a very nominal sum on the basis of a long-term lease. There are approximately eighty acres, with a club house on a hillside, commanding a fine view of the surrounding country. The Club has a membership of about one hundred and twenty-five members.
ORANGE ATHLETIC CLUB
Much interest is shown in the Orange Athletic Club by the youth of the town. A baseball team and a football team are maintained, and have many exciting games with rival teams from the nearby towns. Their practice field is the athletic field at the Orange Center School.
CEDAR CREST SUMMER CAMP
The facilities of the Wepawaug River, which used to be used for mills or factories, are now confined, exclusively, lively, to recreation and health-building. A children's camp, owned and operated by the Interservice Clubs Committee of New Haven and supervised by the New Haven Park Commission, occupies thirty-seven acres on both sides of the river. The project was started in 1926, and each year has seen additions of buildings and equipment, until at the present time there are six
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