F. Scott Fitzgerald House

has been designated a

Registered National

Historic Landmark

under the provisions of the

Historical Sites Act of August 21st 1935.

This site possesses exceptional value

in commemorating and illustrating

the history of United States.

U.S. Department of the Interior

National Park Service

1971

Marker is on Summit Avenue, on the right ...

The Origins of Lake Accotink

Indigenous People. The original inhabitants of the lands around Accotink Creek lived as semi-sedentary hunters and gatherers who moved seasonally to fallow game. These peoples spoke varying forms of the Algonquin language. The river system provided them with a wealth ...

John F. "Jack" McGee

Rhode Island's First Aviator

1885-1918

During his flying career, Jack McGee, one of Pawtucket's most famous sons and a pioneer in this country's aviation history, used this general area of Darlington to make many of his historic flights.

On June 11th 1918 he ...

Morning Star #20 I.O.O.F Lodge Building

Morning Star Lodge #20 was instituted February 9, 1854. The Lodge met for several years on the second floor of a 48 x 24 foot hillside building near here. In 1859, the members erected a building on this site. On ...

Miller and Lux Survey Office

Large scale farming and ranching was needed to supply the restaurants and grocery stores in fast-growing cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles in the late 1800s.

Henry Miller and Charles Lux purchased large areas of land throughout the western states ...

Replicas gates for Northington General Hospital

These gates are replicas of the gates for Northington General Hospital, a U.S. Army Hospital that operated on this site during World War II. From 1947 to 1952, Northington General Hospital was the temporary home of DCH Regional Medical Center ...

Farnsworth's Cavalry Charge

July 3, 1863 - Third Day

"...each man felt, as he tightened his saber belt, that he was summoned to ride to death."

Capt. H.C. Parsons, U.S.A.

1st Vermont Cavalry, Farnsworth's Brigade

One of the last, and most futile, engagements at Gettysburg occurred here ...

Grave of Colonel J. W. Fannin and His Men

After battle of Coleto (March 19 - 20, 1836), where a Texas Army under Col. James Walker Fannin met defeat by Mexicans in superior numbers, the Texas soldiers were held in Presidio La Bahia, supposedly as war prisoners. However, by ...

Freedmen's Bureau Freedman's Bank

Slavery denied African Americans the education and skills required to exercise the freedoms won by the Civil War. To redress this, Congress created the Freedman Bureau and Freedman’s Bank in March 1865. In Richmond, the Bureau and its Bank first ...

The "Three Fates"

This fountain, erected in 1956, is situated near the Leeson Street entrance to the park. It consists of a group of three bronze figures – Nornenbrunnen, representing the Three Fates, who weave and measure the thread of man's destiny.

The monument ...