Golf Scorecard History 101, Virginia - Set $7

Golf Scorecard History 101, Virginia

Set $7

CC at Ford's Colony to CC of Virginia

Flag of Virginia

Some interesting facts about Virginia:

1. Virginia was named for England's "Virgin Queen," Elizabeth I.
2. The major cash crop of Virginia is tobacco and many of the people who live there earn their living from the tobacco industry.
3. Jamestown, the first of the original 13 Colonies was founded for the purpose of silk cultivation. Silk to be traded with the Court of King James. After blight fungus destroyed the mulberry trees (silkworm food), sericulturist planted tobacco as a cash crop.
4. Jamestown was the first English settlement in the U.S. It was also the first capital of Virginia.
5. Virginia is known as "the birthplace of a nation".
6. Arlington County was originally part of the ten-mile square parcel of land surveyed in 1791 to be part of Washington, DC. The U.S. Congress returned that portion of the land to the "Commonwealth of Virginia" following a referendum among its citizens.
7. Eight United States Presidents were born in Virginia: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, William Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson.
8. Six Presidents' wives were born in Virginia: Martha Washington, Martha Jefferson, Rachel Jackson, Letitia Tyler, Ellen Arthur, Edith Wilson.
9. Seven Presidents are buried in Virginia: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Tyler, Taft and Kennedy. 
10.  there are approximately 430 golf courses in Virginia.  Thirty-four scorecards from nine of their courses can be viewed below.

More Blog Issues for Virginia and Internet Links:

To view more of my Virginia blog issues scroll to the upper left corner of this page and enter the word Virginia in the search field.  This will bring up virtually all of the blog issues for the state of the Virginia that I've done to date.  Click on this Internet link to view over 13,100 more miscellaneous golf scorecards

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The total number of golf scorecard images on this site now equals 19,594
The total number of golf photographs on this site now equals 5,549
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Coming Soon:
Baltusrol GC (Lower), New Jersey
New Zealand Scorecards
Washington scorecards
Additions to Previously Blogged Scorecard Sequences

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Total Virginia = 1.813
Total USA = 95,372
Total Foreign = 45,613
Total Collection = 140,985

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