"A History of the Schuylkill Fishing Company" of the State In Schuylkill 1732-1888. (Self Published, Philadelphia 1889); The Schuylkill Fishing Company was the first angling club in the Thirteen Colonies and remains the oldest continuously operating social club in the English-speaking world. President George Washington, an honorary member, was a frequent visitor to the clubhouse. From the Francis Hopkinson Family Archives