In the late spring of 1896, after the Tennessee River flood waters had receded from the willow banks, a group of New Englanders appeared on the grounds of an amusement park at the end of the Riverview Trolley Line, north of Hill City.  Each picked up a wooden stick attached to an odd shaped metal head and started swinging a small round ball.  The game of golf had arrived in Chattanooga!  Now believed to be the oldest in the South on its original site, Chattanooga Golf & Country Club has weathered two world wars, the Great Depression, and other economic and military upheavals.