Old travel Blog photograph of the City Chambers in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The building, constructed in the period between 1875 and 1879, was created by James Campbell Walker who also designed the first Carnegie Library. Dunfermline's most famous son is the entrepreneur and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie who was born in the town in 1835. Among the gifts he gave to his home town, include a free library and public swimming baths. In 1888, two Dunfermline men, John Reid and Robert Lockhart, first demonstrated golf in the USA by setting up a hole in an orchard, before Reid set up America's first golf club the same year, St. Andrews Golf Club in Yonkers, New York, with Andrew Carnegie one of the first members.
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