The Milwaukee Curling Club, now based in

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, is the longest continually operating

curling Curling is a sport in which players slide #Curling stone, stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area that is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take t ...

club in the United States. It was founded in

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in 1845 by Scots emigrants, including Alexander Mitchell (later elected "patron" of the

Grand National Curling Club The Grand National Curling Club (GNCC), founded in 1867, was the first National Curling Organization encompassing the entire United States. It remained the national organization until it created the United States Curling Association (USCA) in the ...

).Kerr, John. ''The History of Curling and Fifty Years of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club''. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1890; p. 343 In 1947, a member indicated to Bernie Roth that a women's curling club was needed because women could only play if their husbands were members; in 1949 she established the Milwaukee Kilties.

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