An important piece of history in New Jersey is being added to the National Register of Historic Places.

The Shady Rest Golf and Country Club in Scotch Plains is considered to be the first African American country club in the nation. Members of a committee to preserve its legacy recently announced it had won the listing.

“I’m just ecstatic,” Syvia Hicks, who is credited with leading the preservation effort, said in a statement. “I’m over the moon.”

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