In July of 1964, V.V.Cooke and Paul Semonin earmarked nearly 1,000 acres of property that would eventually become Hunting Creek.  The land was development with a first-class country club featuring a championship golf course surrounded by distinctive landscaped dwellings.

In 1972 the membership purchased the club from the Hunting Creek Company. The narrow creek that traverses the number 16 fairway had no name when golf course architect Ben Wihry and his partner Cambell Miller looked at on a surveyor’s map.  Miller, a history buff, suggested naming it Hunting Creek after the two streams (little Hunting Creek and Great Hunting Creek) on George Washington’s Mr. Vernon property in Virginia.