The following document was found among papers in the clubhouse.  It was eloquently written in 1977 by long time treasurer and a founding member, Mark Scully.  The club was marking its 50th year of existence.  We all owe a tremendous debt to the founders and past members for their perseverance, ingenuity and dedication to the sportsmen’s cause.  The Coxsackie Sportsmen’s Club would not exist if it were not for them.

The Coxsackie Sportsmen’s Club will mark fifty years of service to sportsmen during 1977 and a special committee has been appointed to plan observance of their Golden anniversary. It is the oldest active club in Greene County and has developed from a dozen or so target shooters, gathering for informal practice in a bus company garage to the present well organized group which owns its clubhouse on forty acres of land and has a paid up membership of about one hundred fifty sportsmen who are interested in many different phases of outdoor recreation.

The original club, then known as the Coxsackie Rod & Rifle Club, was organized in September, 1927 with George T. Morgan as President.  They set up an outdoor range at Four Mile Point, shooting distances up to 1000 yards with 30-06 rifles loaned to them by the Director of Civilian Marksmanship.  They also joined the Hudson Valley Rifle League and fired many matches with teams in the area including Hudson, Troy, Stuyvesant, Freehold and Pittsfield.