War Memorial Golf Course Formerly Called Fair Park Golf Course

Little Rock's first municipal golf course was planned beginning in 1924 inside what was then called Fair Park, and it was completed by 1937. During the Depression it was the only public golf venue in the city. WPA crews built the clubhouse, a gazebo, a rest area and stone pillars between 1933 and 1937, and a metal gate lettered W M GOLF was added after the course was renamed in 1948. Covering about 90 acres of the 200-acre War Memorial Park, it closed in July 2019 and was listed on the National Register on September 16, 2020.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site — 2.4 mi
  The 1927 high school where nine Black students entered under federal troops on September 25, 1957, with a National Park Service visitor center across the intersection.
• Arkansas State Capitol — 2.7 mi
  The neo-classical Capitol built from 1899 to 1915 on the old penitentiary site with state convict labor, free to enter, with the Little Rock Nine monument on the grounds.
• Big Dam Bridge — 3.2 mi
  A 14-foot-wide walking and cycling bridge built onto Murray Lock and Dam, 90 feet over the Arkansas River between Little Rock and North Little Rock.
• Mosaic Templars Cultural Center — 3.4 mi
  The state museum of African American history on the site of the Mosaic Templars of America headquarters, a Black fraternal order's 1913 building on West Ninth Street.

More markers nearby

• Old Roosevelt Road Bridge — 2.8 mi
• BISHOP CHARLES HARRISON MASON — 3.3 mi
• Fort Steele — 3.4 mi
• Pulaski County County Government — 3.5 mi