Stephen C. Foster
On the site of this school
between the years 1846 - 1850 lived
Stephen C. Foster
Master of the Art of Song
Composer of
My Old Kentucky Home
Swanee River
Old Black Joe
and many others
In Native ballad form and
melodic strain distinctively
American he sang of simple joys
and pathos to all the world
Marker is on East 4th Street, on the left when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
