Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The most famous poet of 19th-century America (1807–1882), who wrote "Paul Revere’s Ride" from his Brattle Street house — Washington’s former headquarters.
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1727: Georgian house of 1727 built for William Brattle, the Loyalist general who fled Cambridge in 1774; one of the Tory Row estates that gave Brattle Street its name.
Future2026: America’s 250th — July 4, 2026.
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What this meant before
- Established
- 1807
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