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6 unusual facts about Pinehurst


Effie Neal Jones

Effie Neal Jones died on April 30, 2002 at Moore Regional Hospital, Pinehurst, North Carolina of Heart Failure.

George A. Slater

George Atwood Slater (September 2, 1867 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut – February 23, 1937 in Pinehurst, Moore County, North Carolina) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Slater died on February 23, 1937, in Moore County Hospital in Pinehurst, North Carolina, of appendicitis; and was buried in Rye, New York.

James Walker Tufts

James Walker Tufts (February 11, 1835 – February 3, 1902), is probably best known for his founding of The Village of Pinehurst, North Carolina (USA).

Pinehurst, Texas

Pinehurst is a small town in between *Tomball, Texas and *Magnolia, Texas located off HWY 249.

Richard Mandell

Richard Mandell (born November 7, 1968) is a noted golf course architect residing in Pinehurst, North Carolina.


1995 RCA Championships

Other top seeds were Auckland, Philadelphia and Pinehurst winner Thomas Enqvist, Adelaide, Scottsdale and Tokyo champion Jim Courier, Todd Martin, Alberto Berasategui and Andrei Medvedev.

1996 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships

The 1996 Rolling Rock U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Pinehurst, North Carolina in the United States and was part of the World Series of the 1996 ATP Tour.

Bishop Strachan School

Bishop Strachan School first opened September 1867 at Pinehurst, near the Art Gallery of Toronto (currently the Art Gallery of Ontario), then relocated in 1868 to a cottage on Front Street, and then relocated to Wykeham Hall at Yonge and College Streets in 1870.

Denver Champions of Golf

It was played in Denver, Colorado, USA, at the Pinehurst Country Club (1982), at the Green Gables Country Club (1983), and in Castle Rock at the TPC at Plum Creek (1984–1987).

Fred McLeod

McLeod won several more professional tournaments: the 1909 & 1920 North and South Open at Pinehurst, the 1912 Shawnee Open, the 1924 St. Petersburg Open and the 1927 Maryland Open.

Hudson View Gardens

Dr. Charles V. Paterno, a real estate developer, purchased land on Pinehurst Avenue and Cabrini Boulevard, between West 182nd and 186th Streets, across the street from his estate, atop a ridge above the Hudson River.

Kellogg High School

The only high school in the Kellogg School District #391, it serves grades 9–12 in the western Silver Valley: the communities of Kellogg, Wardner, Pinehurst, and Smelterville in western Shoshone County, and Cataldo and Rose Lake in eastern Kootenai County.

Miniature golf

The first standardized minigolf courses to enter commercial mass-production were the Thistle Dhu ("This'll Do") course 1916 in Pinehurst, North Carolina, and the 1927 Tom Thumb patent of Garnet Carter from Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.

Pinehurst Resort

Pinehurst was founded by Boston soda fountain magnate James Walker Tufts.

Robert H. Dedman, Sr.

He also donated to Sandhills Community College in Pinehurst, North Carolina, where the Robert H. Dedman Center for Business Leadership is named for him.

Vicki Goetze

In 1989 she was still only 16 years old when she defeated Brandie Burton to become the third youngest winner in the history of the U.S. Women's Amateur at the Pinehurst Country Club, in Pinehurst, North Carolina.

WCEH

WCEH-FM, a radio station (98.3 FM) licensed to serve Pinehurst, Georgia


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