South Boston Yacht Club

On February 5th, 1868, less then three years after the end of the Civil War, Captain John Greer and a group of his fellow yachting enthusiasts met in Arthur Scott’s boathouse on the South Boston shoreline between K and L streets to organize the South Boston Yacht Club with a roster that year of 59 members. The following summer a new building on the shoreline at the foot of K Street was built at a cost of five hundred dollars and it was dedicated on July 15, 1869. Less then three years later... more