The Spring Valley Boat Club can trace it's origins back to 1937 when a group of friends who enjoyed fishing, swimming and boating in the river acquired a buillding slated to be torn down.  On March 29, 1943, the Club was incorporated in the State of Illinois, and the Spring Valley Boat Club was officially born.

The object of the Club, as stated in the original By-Laws was to promote social and atheltic activites, the sport of boating in the Illinois River Valley, and in connection with the foregoing, establish and maintain a wharf or boat landing.