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The Galveston Country Club celebrated one hundred years of continuous operation in March of 1998. That Galveston would be the home of the first chartered country club in Texas is not surprising, since the city was at the peak of its golden age." While Galveston was no longer Texas' largest city, it was one of its most important financially, and the sophistication of life on the island was conducive to importing the "gentleman's game" of golf then popular in the cosmopolitan and urban areas of the east coast. The city's port flourished, with cargo and passenger ships calling from countries far and near. The business district bustled and thrived and the city's beaches swarmed with visitors from all over the country. Excursion trains ran regularly between Galveston and Houston, and other trains transported people and cargo between the island and places farther inland. Galveston was an exciting place to live, work and visit, and led Texas in many areas; the first national bank in Texas (First National Bank of Galveston, 1866); the first real estate agency (Trueheart and Adriance, 1880); the first electric lights in Texas, (1884); the first nursing school in the South (John Sealy Hospital Training School of Nurses, 1890) and the first medical school west of the Mississippi (The University of Texas Medical Branch, 1891) to name only a few of Galveston's many credits.

The organization, then known as the Galveston Country Club, formed in the spring of 1898 with a membership of 30. The country club's first home sat on the beach west of the United States coastal fortification, Fort Crockett, in an area called the Denver Resurvey, just west of The San Luis Hotel and Condominiums. Galveston saw the worst natural disaster in U.S. history -- the 1900 storm. The clubhouse and the golf course suffered major damage.

The club moved from 53rd and S in 1910 to Dickinson. It was here, on 100 acres on the Dickinson Bayou, that the club was re-named the Oleander Country Club. Construction began on a clubhouse and golf course. In October of 1918 a fire completely destroyed the structure.

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