The Doyle Country Club (aka Doyle's Country Club or simply the Doyle Club, formerly Clark's Grove[2]) is a historic, privately owned club located on Mary Ingles Highway in Dayton, Kentucky, a rural area of Campbell County, Kentucky. A dance pavilion and 16 cabins are on a beachfront property on the shore of the Ohio River, it is the last surviving river camp community along the Ohio River Valley.[3][4]
History
The club was incorporated in Dayton, Kentucky in 1919, but had already been active for several years.[5] During a January 1913 flood of the Ohio River, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported all of the cottages erected by the Club under water,[6] and following the Great Dayton Flood the same year, "five or six cottages were swept off their foundations".[7] The broader area was a popular and controversial swimming area, per the local history.