The original farmland which
is now Blissful Meadows Golf Club, was purchased by the Wood family
from the King of England in 1726 when the town of Uxbridge was a
section of Sherborn, Massachusetts.
The one and one-half story
cape-style hand-hewed post and beam farmhouse (located to the right
of the clubhouse) was built by the Wood family in 1745 and is now in
the National Register of Historic Buildings.
In 1851, the Wood family
sold the farm to Comfort R. Thompson. Thompson remodeled the
1745 farmhouse in 1879 by constructing a 2-story addition.
Then, in 1880, Mr. Thompson built the large historic Victorian barn
(now the clubhouse). This building is also in the National
Register of Historic Places.
The Thompson family sold
the farm in 1957 to the Holman family which in turn, sold the farm
to the Rondeau family, who purchased the farm with the intent of
raising cattle and providing an income from the land.
In 1964 Gordon and Jean
Bliss purchased the farm, including the house, barn, approximately
100 acres of land, and all of the farm machinery for the fair asking
price of $14,900. This was to become a "hobby" farm for the Blisses
and their 7 children, all of whom grew up on the farm with the
horses, cows, beef cattle, chickens, pigs, goats and sheep.
They named their farm "Blissful Meadows".
In 1988 when most of the
Bliss children "left the roost", Jean and Gordon Bliss, along with
their son Kevin, and daughter-in-law Cindy, converted the nearly 300
year-old farm into one of Blackstone Valley's most beautiful golf
courses. Although the Bliss children left the home they were
raised in, they could never leave the farm. All seven of the
children have had and most currently do have a hand in the every day
operations of Blissful Meadows. Even the sons-in-law have
joined in!
The New England charm still
exists at Blissful Meadows, from the historic buildings, abandoned
"Scadden Silver Mine",
100's of feet of original stone walls, and 100 year-old farm
machinery. They all contribute to that feeling you get at
Blissful Meadows, bringing you back to a simpler time, a more
relaxed time, time when families worked and played together.
