Maxinkuckee Country Club

1641 E Shore Dr
Culver, Indiana
46511-9126
phone: (574) 842-2391
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Other: --
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Joyce Kowatch, General Manager
Jack Kowatch, Superintendent

On the golf sites it is listed as:

The 9-hole "Maxinkuckee" course at the Maxinkuckee Country Club facility in Culver, Indiana features all the hallmarks of Indiana golf. Maxinkuckee golf course opened in 1921.

About this course: Maxinkuckee Course 9 hole regulation length course Private Equity golf course * includes golf cart where available

About this facility: Maxinkuckee Country Club 9 total holes at this golf facility Golf Only facility 20 tees driving range 9 regulation holes

GPS	Driving Range	Area Price
No	20 Tee Stations	--

Maxinkuckee	Type: Private Course Opened: January 1921
Architect: --	Fees (with cart)

Holes	Yards*	Par	Slope	Rating	Weekday	Weekend	Twilight
9	--	--	--	--	--	--	--

*Yardage measured from the back tees

The Coffin Golf Course, opposite the Coffin Cottage at 1480 East Shore Drive, was started in about 1906 as a three-hole course, and may be one of the oldest courses in Indiana.

Portledge Golf Links - The golf course lying east of Portledge cottage was opened last week by Chas. E. Coffin, the owner, assisted by Mr. Zimmer, the state golf champion, Rev. James D. Stanley and Kenneth Ogle, in an 18 hole foursome. The links comprise a field of 15 acres adjoining Portledge on the east and there are six holes in the course with a total distance of 1500 yards. The grounds are rolling and there are a number of natural hazards that make the links sufficiently sporty and interesting. The course is being used daily by the golf players on the East side and all pronounce it a most valuable addition to the attractions of the lake. It is proposed to have a golf tournament on the links some time in the near future. - July 23, 1908 Culver Citizen

Below is the Coffin lot and the general area of the Maxinkuckee Golf Course today:

By 1922 it appears on the plat map below and continues to do so.

It was expanded and named the East Shore Country Club in 1922. In 1925, the name was changed to the Maxinkuckee Country Club. In the first decade of the twentieth century, at a time when tennis was becoming popular in Indiana, private courts were built by a few cottagers who had sufficient lawn space. Later, a court was built on the property of the Maxinkuckee Country Club.
Over the years it has grown from what appears to read 9.07A to approximately 202A by the 1996 plat map.

The property history is:
1880 - A part of the holdings of Rector & Thomas

1898 - M. E. Willums

1908 - M. F. Louden

Below is sections of plat maps showing the real estate that was and is the Maxinkuckee Country Club:

1922 - 9.07A:

Friday, September 29, 1960 - Rochester Sentinel

Reason C. EATON, 75, caretaker of the Maxinkuckee golf course who suffered a cerebral hemorrhage while using a tractor mower at the course Wednesday, died at 10 a.m. today in Plymouth Parkview hospital.

A lifetime resident of Marshall county, Mr. Eaton was born near Argos, March 17, 1886 to Charles and Carrie EATON. He was married Oct. 24, 1903 in Argos to Nora POWERS, who died Dec. 14, 1953.

He was a member of the Gilead Methodist church near Argos.

Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Ross (Carrie) SNOPE, Plymouth, Mrs. Cecil (Helen) CHARTERS, Bourbon, Mrs. Louis (Anna Raye) HITE, Inwood, and Mrs. Clayton (Eloise) THOMPSON, LaPaz; a son, Clarence "Pete" EATON, LaPaz; twelve grandchildren; thirty great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Ruby ROBBINS, Argos, and a brother Garvis [EATON], Sharpesville.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Grossman funeral home at Argos with the Rev. Russell GOOD of the Gilead Methodist church officiating. Burial will be in the New Oak Hill cemetery at Plymouth. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.

1970's 143.1A; 1996 - 202a

E 8.63A S 635.16' LOT 4 E RD
BEG N LN LOT 2 624' E SR117 S 192.5'
SW COR LOT 4 TH E ON S LN 300' PT ELN
300' E SW LOT 4 N EX

A part of Lot Number FOur (4), in Section Twenty-tw (22), Township Thirty-two (32) North, of Range One (1), East, described as fllows: All that part of five (5) acres off of the SOuth end of that part of Lot NUmber Four (4), that lies East of the the Public Highway that runs in a northeasterly and southwesterly dierction through said Lot Number four (4), and also all that part of a parcel of ground three hundred (300) feet in width north and south extending fromt he punlic highway which runs in a northeasterly and southwesterly dierction through said Lot Four (4), and extending from said public highway to the East line of said Lot four I4) said parcel of ground being immediately adjacent to the parcel of ground that hereinabove described. EXCEPT, that part of the above described real estate previously conveyed to toehrs.
E 587' & S 2RD W 733' OF 10A TR
N 297' W 22' E 609' 10A TR

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