History

According to the Atlas of Chester County PA, Early Indians, Trails, and Villages, it locates the Shawnee Indians in West Fallowfield Area,  which is 1 mile west of us by the Octorara Creek.  The Nanticoke Trail was the now Route 10 (Octorara Trail) which is the water shed divide between the Delaware & Chesapeake River.  We are situated 3 miles north from the intersection Route 41 and Route 10 (Octorara Trail) that the Nanticoke Indians used in the early 1700’s.

The property we sit on was once the land of a George Glenn and is named such on the atlas of 1883 Breou Farm atlas map for West Fallowfield.  George Glenn also shows up on the 1873 Witmer Farm Atlas map for West Fallowfield.  The 1883 map shows a frame barn and a stone house at the end of a short drive off Schoff Road.  The stone house is still on the Moccasin Run property and served as the original pro shop from the fall of 1987 thru the spring of 1988 when the full 18 holes became open for play. The frame barn was taken down and some of the original barn wood was saved and used in the present day Pro Shop which was built on the North block wall of another barn on the property that was used as a calf shed.

On both of these maps there is a stream going through the property which today is still in existence and comes into play on holes 5, 8,11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.  This creek which flows thru Moccasin Run is a tributary (not officially named) to Wolfe’s Run Creek which flows into Octorara creek where the Shawnee Indians settled in the West Fallowfield area.     

In 1968 Paul King bought this tract of  farm land from then land owner Auther Hoyleman and farmed it with corn, alfalfa, potatoes, and soy beans for 20 years at which time he decided to turn the farm into a golf course.  Golf course construction, ground breaking took place April 1986 on this 100 acre farm. 

The name Moccasin Run is derived from the Indians that dwelt along the Octorara Creek.