Literary Landmarks: Edgar Allan Poe Cottage Edgar Allan Poe spent the last years of his life, from 1846 to 1849, in The Bronx at Poe Cottage, now located at Kingsbridge Road and the Grand Concourse. A small wooden farmhouse built about 1812, the cottage once commanded unobstructed vistas over the rolling Bronx hills to the shores of Long Island. It was a bucolic setting in which the great writer penned many of his most enduring poetical works, including "Annabel Lee," "The Bells" and "Eureka." For more information click here: Poe's Cottage

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• John Locke (1632-1704), influential British philosopher and social contract theorist, , arguing that a government could only be legitimate if it received the consent of the governed
• Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-1894), American physician and writer, regarded as one of the best poets of the 19th century
• Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982), Swedish-born international film star
• John McCain (b. 1936), American military veteran and politician, centrist Republican senator from Arizona
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