The view from the hilltop on No. 14 is where Clearview got its name. Bill Powell started building the course in 1946, after he came home from World War II and faced racial discrimination in golf. He wanted a place that welcomed golfers of every color.
With help from his wife, Marcella, he turned farmland into nine holes, seeding the fairways by hand from a seeder hung around his neck. Clearview opened in 1948 as a public course and grew to 18 holes in 1978.
It isn't a long course, so the greens do the work. The 17th looks like a simple drive and pitch, but its small green is very slick and among the hardest on the course to read.
Today his children run it, Larry Powell as superintendent and Renee Powell as head professional. The ladies' league Marcella started more than 50 years ago still plays.