And there’s a museum dedicated to one of the city’s most famous sons, the writer Edgar Allan Poe ... aged only 40. Poe’s troubled childhood — he had an absentee father and a mother ...
His father reportedly abandoned the family when ... He did not take their last name but became Edgar Allan Poe instead.
The Edgar Allan Poe House is open Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Entry to the museum costs $8 for adults; children ages 12 and younger may enter for free when joined by an adult.