Sidney Lanier

In memory of

Sidney Lanier 1842-1881

Poet and Musician

Who Spent his last days among these hills

"Thyself Thy Monument"

Marker is on Old Airport Road (North Carolina Route 1547) east of Henderson Road (U.S. 25), on the left when traveling east.

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Sidney Lanier

1842-1881

Poet, musician and scholar,

"The Sweet Singer of the South." First writer-in-residence at

Johns Hopkins University.

Teacher at Eutaw Place School.

Author of The Boys' King Arthur.

Marker is on Eutaw Place, on the right when traveling south.

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Sidney Lanier

Georgia's Greatest Poet

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Was a guest in this home on many occasions in the 1870`s. It was then the residence of his wife`s brother, Henry C. Day. On these visits Lanier became acquainted with "The Marshes of Glynn" which ...

Sidney Lanier

Southern poet, died in house,

September 7.1881.

Marker is on Lynn Road (North Carolina Route 108) east of Mimosa Inn Lane.

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Birthplace of Sidney Lanier

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. ...