Golf in Athens

Athens is the county seat of Limestone County in the Tennessee River valley of north Alabama, a historic community that predates Alabama statehood and has served as the governmental center of one of the Tennessee Valley's most productive agricultural counties since the early nineteenth century. Athens State University, founded in 1822, is Alabama's oldest institution of higher learning, and the city's educational tradition gives it a civic character that extends beyond the agricultural heritage of the surrounding Tennessee Valley farmland. The Limestone County golf market benefits from the area's proximity to the Huntsville defense-technology market while maintaining its own agricultural and academic identity.