Sites: The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

Official site of The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore ... features include a number of transrcibed lectures...

The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore was officially established following a commemorative celebration of Poe's birthday on January 19, 1923. The roots of the Poe Society, however, extend back through four previous organizations to 1865. In that year, the Poe Memorial Fund was formed to create a monument over Poe's grave that would be fitting to the memory of his literary legacy. Under the leadership of Miss Sara Sigourney Rice, the memorial was finally erected in the corner of the Westminster Presbyterian Burying Ground (at Fayette and Greene Streets) and dedicated on November 17, 1875.