Edgar Allan Poe

By Petersburg Preservation Task Force on

Poe and Petersburg A little history of the Hiram Haines House. 12 West Bank Street started as an Inn and Restaurant in 1814, and by 1829 was operated by Hiram Haines as a coffee house. Its real claim to fame lies in the fact that in 1836 Edgar Allan Poe, a friend of Haines, spent his honeymoon in…

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