Cedar River Golf Course and Motel

180 West Main Street
Indian Lake, NY 12842

518-648-5906

From Star Lake we drove down to Indian Lake to Cedar River Golf Cub, which proved to be an even more splendid nine-holer. The track was built in 1932 by three local men, including Dr. Hubert Carroll, on property owned by another physician, Dr. Carol Goulet, who also owned the adjacent Cedar River House.

In 1947 Dr. Goulet sold the inn and the course to Dewey Brown, who is described thus in Peter Martin's Adirondack Golf Courses... Past and Present: "Dewey was a black man who had learned the game as a caddie in New Jersey. He was to golfing what Jackie Robinson was to major league baseball: a black pioneer in a white world, a superb athlete, a sportsman and a gentleman. He was one of the first black members of the PGA, if not the first. He has been described by sportswriters as the 'Knight of the Fairways' because he was one of God's great gentlemen and sincerity was his trademark." Brown was also a renowned club-maker who crafted a set for President Harding. After he retired, in 1972, he gave the place to his son, who sold it four years later to Robert Below, a golf professional. In 1976 the hotel was bulldozed and the course lay dormant.

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