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Edgar Allan Poe Cottage
A piece of history
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NotForTourists on 15 Jan 09
In an area of the Bronx formerly known as Fordham Village is an 1812 house once leased by Edgar Allan Poe. In the 1830s, the area was bucolic farmland with a few workmen cottages. Poe Park, located at the intersection of Grand Concourse and East Kingsbridge Road, is even less bucolic and idyllic than Poe's life. The circumstances that brought Poe to the village were less than idyllic. Poe's wife, Virginia, contracted tuberculosis. The fresh air was supposed to revive her. Never-ever-evermore.
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