Sindey Lanier - Macon, Georgia
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N 32° 50.238 W 083° 38.190
17S E 253221 N 3636330
Located at 935 High Street in Macon, Georgia.
Waymark Code: WM7FAJ
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 10/18/2009
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From the Georgia Historical Marker nearby:
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´.
Lanier was a very well known person of his time. The large lake serving the water needs for the city of Atlanta is named for him. "Lake Sidney Lanier"
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"The Sidney Lanier Cottage House Museum, located at 935 High Street in Macon, GA, is the birthplace of noted poet, musician & soldier, Sidney Lanier (1842-1881). Perhaps best known for his poems "The Marshes of Glynn" and "Song of the Chattahoochee," Lanier was also a renowned musician, as he was first chair flute in the Peabody Symphony Orchestra in Baltimore for seven seasons. Furthermore, Lanier received a federal commission to compose a Cantata for the Centenniel celebration of the United States in 1876 in Philadelphia."
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