top of page

Rivers Club

Founder: E. Rivers

An obscure club from Atlanta, GA.

Related with the Boys Club of Georgia and the Arkwright Fraternity

The Rivers Club began in 1909 in Atlanta, GA with 40 Charter members, all from the newly established Atlanta Boys' Club. It was founded by E. Rivers.

Boys were only known by their "water" names and rose through the ranks

  •  pool

  •  creek

  •  river, with the goal of reaching the ocean.​

The group never seem to catch on and disappeared from the local newspaper, the Atlantic Constitution, by mid- 1911.

 

img1BC.jpg

1909

img1BA.gif
img1B9.jpg

Despite its "waiting list" the group disappeared from the newspaper soon after this clipping - 1911

1909

bottom of page