Sidney Lanier

Pictured below is the birthplace of Sidney Lanier.

Sidney Lanier, poet, linguist, musician, mathematician and lawyer was born in the cottage below on Feb 3, 1842. He graduated from Oglethorpe University then at Milledgeville, served as a private in the confederate army and was captured while commanding a blockage 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. September 7, 1881. Among his best known works are "The Marshes of Glynn and song of the chattanahoochee".