From 1900 to 1908, the Dyker Meadow Golf Club had a mascot cat named Lillian Russell who was an expert fishing cat.
Archive for May, 2019
1904: Lillian Russell, the Fishing Cat of Brooklyn’s Dyker Meadow Golf Club, II
Posted: 19th May 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: Brooklyn History, Dyker Beach, Lillian Russell, New York City History
0
1904: Lillian Russell, the Fishing Cat of Brooklyn’s Dyker Meadow Golf Club, I
Posted: 13th May 2019 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat StoriesTags: Brooklyn History, Dyker Meadow Golf Course, Fort Hamilton, Jacques Cortelyou, New York History, Peter Cortelyou
Part I of a 2-Part Cat Tale Fishing at Dyker Meadows In 1821, Peter Cortelyou wrote a letter to William J. Lott concerning some local fishing practices that he thought could jeopardize the Cortelyou family fishery. The fishery was located on the Narrows at the foot of present-day Battery Avenue, adjacent to Dyker Meadows and […]
