Providence parks in 1903 10 Monday Jun 2013 Posted by asdjfdlkf in Historical context, Maps ≈ 1 Comment Map of parks and green spaces in Providence that Lovecraft could have known in his boyhood. Providence magazine. v.28, 1916. Map showing situation on City ownership of parks in 1903. Omits the unofficial spaces such as the remains of Cat Swamp.
Note the evocatively named “Starvegoat Island” – a prompt for a Mythos writer, if ever I saw one! 🙂