Timberlinks Golf Club
Southwest of town
This nine-hole, par 3 golf course, with clubhouse and pro-shop, is open to the public. In the summer it becomes quite crowded. The New Jerusalem High School Golf Team practices and plays here. On one corner of the property, at the edge of the greens, sits an old saltbox cottage. The course owners don’t know the age of the place, but suspect that the old cottage may date back to the earliest days of the town. The place has shown remarkable resilience to the ravages of time, although a few stray golf balls have smashed through several of the small, leaded-glass, diamond-paned windows. The owners of the golf course have left the place alone, reasoning that it would be a shame (and possibly unlawful) to tamper with an obviously historical – if long abandoned – homestead. Historical research done on the cottage will disclose its past as the dwelling of reputed witch Goody Fowler. The old woman was dragged from this very dwelling by an angry mob back in 1704 to meet justice at the end of a hangman’s noose.
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