General Winfield Scott, former General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army, was the namesake for five places named Fort Scott:
- Fort Scott, Kansas, a city that grew up around a military fort of the same name
- Fort Scott National Historic Site
- Fort Scott (Arlington, Virginia), a small fortification in Arlington, Virginia, built to defend Washington during the American Civil War
- Fort Winfield Scott, a coast artillery post created within the Presidio of San Francisco in 1912
- Fort Point, San Francisco, renamed Fort Winfield Scott in 1882 but reverted to the original name before the establishment of the coast artillery post
- Fort Scott (Plattsburgh, New York), one of three American forts laid out by Major Joseph Totten prior to the 1814 Battle of Plattsburgh
Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or scott:
“Across Parker Avenue from the fort is the Site of the Old Gallows, where 83 men “stood on nothin’, a-lookin’ up a rope.” The platform had a trap wide enought to “accommodate” 12 men, but half that number was the highest ever reached. On two occasions six miscreants were executed. There were several groups of five, some quartets and trios.”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program. Arkansas: A Guide to the State (The WPA Guide to Arkansas)
“Earth and I gave you turquoise
when you walked singing
We lived laughing in my house
and told old stories”
—N. Scott Momaday (b. 1934)