Chisholm Ski Club

In 1924, in the Rumford Police Courtroom, a meeting was organized by a group of enthusiastic winter sports fans and the Chisholm Ski Club was born. The annual winter carnival had its beginning during that winter and began a tradition that was to continue for the next 50 years.
From the records of the club in the 20’s, it was written, "when on every Sunday evening at 7:00 o’clock for three months past in the Municipal Police Courtroom you can get together anywhere from twenty-five to thirty men and spend several hours planning for the next carnival. It is this loyal body of members that makes the Chisholm Ski Club a leader among the clubs of the Eastern United States Association.”
The Club and Rumford were awarded the Eastern Amateur Ski Meet in November 1929. “It will put Rumford, Maine before the entire nation as one of the big winter sports centers justly in a class with the already famous Lake Placid, NY, Greenfield, MA, Brattleboro, VT, and our special friend and neighbor, Berlin, NH. It required the the entire support of the whole community to put it over as it should be put over. We must maintain the reputation that we already have been doing things and doing them right”..."Our Club has made wonderful progress in the past five years and you will be quite surprised of the results that will be obtained in the years to come by our Club, the Chisholm Ski Club.”