The founding fathers of Bachelors Barge Club were members of the Phoenix Engine Company, a volunteer fire-fighting organization.

[4] In 1995, Barb Spitz and Izzie (Gordon) Brown won the silver medal in the Woman's lightweight Double event at the Pan AM Games in Argentina.

[11] Also in 1995, the team, coached by Harold Finigan, won the Point Trophy at the Canadian Henley Regatta—winning every sculling event in the Intermediate and Senior Women's categories.

[16] In 1884, architects Edward Hazelhurst and Samuel Huckel, Jr. designed the club's social up-river house in East Falls, the Bachelor's Button.

[17] The two architects had teamed up in 1881, and maintained a 20-year partnership that produced residential and ecclesiastical architecture including the Union Methodist Church and the Mother Bethel A.M.E.

[18] In 1997, team member and co-captain, John Hall, broke the world record in the master's lightweight 2000 meter ergometer.