The Poe Museum

In 1824, during Poe’s junior color guard days, he helped escort the Revolutionary War General Marquis de Lafayette around Richmond, Virginia. Lafayette and the color guard stopped at Richmond’s Old Stone House to visit the Ege family, who had assisted in the American Revolution. While there, Poe stood guard on the front steps of the house. 98 years later, the Old Stone House became the Poe Museum.

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