
Remembering Robert Hawkins: A Stow golf club and a nonprofit are seeking to revive the legacy of the founder of New ...
Just shy of a century ago, a man named Robert Hawkins bought a 160-acre plot of land in Stow and its adjoining mansion at the site. Hawkins then opened Mapledale Country Club in 1926, making it the first Black-owned golf course in New England and one of …