Birthplace of Sidney Lanier-GHM 011-6-Bibb Co
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N 32° 50.238 W 083° 38.180
17S E 253237 N 3636330
6935 High Street, Macon
Waymark Code: WM7DRK
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 10/10/2009
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Sidney Lanier, poet, linguist, musician, mathematician & lawyer, was born in this cottage, Feb. 3, 1842. He graduated from Oglethorpe Univ. then at Milledgeville, served as a private in the Confederate Army and was captured while commanding a blockade runner. Lanier was married in 1867 to Mary Day of Macon where he practiced law with his father. Moving to Maryland he lectured at Johns Hopkins while carrying on his writing. He died at Lynn, N.C. Sept 7, 1881. Among his best known works are ´The Marshes of Glynn´ & ´Song of the Chattahoochee´.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 011-6
Date: 1975
Sponsor: GEORGIA HISTORIC MARKER
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