Poe Cottage and Edgar Allan Poe lore

Edgar Allan Poe lived in Poe Cottage from 1846 until his death in 1849; the building is preserved as a house museum. It is located in Poe Park and is associated in local tours and accounts with stories about Poe's life and literary legacy. Visitors and guides sometimes include anecdotal claims of ghostly associations with Poe at the site; these claims are part of popular lore and are not universally accepted as fact.