Atwood Yacht Club

Frank F. Cope, a Carroll County Common judge who is said to have launched the first sailboat on Atwood Lake in 1939, led the formation of the Atwood Yacht Club on January 28, 1948, and became its first commodore. The same year, the first small clubhouse building was built on a nine-acre site leased from the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District. Establishing an ongoing tradition of membership involvement, construction was completed with donated labor, materials, machines and the sale of... more