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1872

May 4 Detroit Sportsmen met at E. B. Smith’s bookstore in Downtown Detroit to form a hunting and fishing club.


June 4 Articles of Association submitted creating the St. Clair Fishing and Shooting Club of Detroit.

Founders purchased a tract in the St. Clair Flats adjacent to Harsens Island, which in reality was little more than swampland.

Founders constructed – on stilts – 26 boathouses and a clubhouse at a total cost of $l,514.33.

(For the first 68 years of its existence, access to the Club was available only by water.)