Sporting and Social Clubs
Private Clubs played an important role in the development of the Main Line, offering social gathering places, facilities for sports such as cricket, golf, tennis, squash, and horseback riding, for the families relocating from Philadelphia to the suburban region. Many of the clubs are known for their award winning golf courses, grass tennis courts, exclusivity, and social functions. Some of these clubs include:
- Aronimink Golf Club
- Chester Valley Golf Club
- Gulph Mills Golf Club
- Merion Cricket Club
- Merion Golf Club: Ranked America's 7th best golf course in 2008 and will host the U.S. Open in 2013.
- Overbrook Golf Club
- Philadelphia Country Club: One of the first 100 golf courses established in the USA. Hosted the 1939 U.S. Open.
- Radnor Hunt Club: A club for country horse riding and for a yearly spring fox hunt in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
- Radnor Valley Country Club
- St. Davids Golf Club
- Waynesborough Country Club
- White Manor Country Club
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—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
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—Mrs. H. O. Ward (1824–1899)
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—For the State of West Virginia, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)