Edgar Allen Poe (1848)
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Photo of a daguerreotype portrait of Edgar Allen Poe.
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Edgar Allan Poe House
Edgar Allan Poe, writer, poet, inventor of detective fiction, is probably most famous for his poem “The Raven.” He spent time in Baltimore off and on through his entire life. Though born in Boston, he…