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Give several examples of monuments in Maryland / DC / PA that might be familiar to folks who live here but which would not be understood by outsiders without an explanation.

A monument in Maryland that outsiders would not understand is the Edgar Allen Poe statue. This represents a great man who was born in Boston but lived in Baltimore. He was a poet and he was born in 1809 and he died in 1849. The Baltimore Ravens mascots are named after him; Edgar, Allen, and Poe. The statue was dedicated on October 20, 1921 and was originally located in Wyman Park. Due to vandalism and neglect at the site, the statue was moved to University of Baltimore on the recommendation of the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore.

In 1826 Poe left Richmond to attend the University of Virginia, where he excelled in his classes while accumulating considerable debt. The miserly Allan had sent Poe to college with less than a third of the money he needed, and Poe soon took up gambling to raise money to pay his expenses. By the end of his first term Poe was so desperately poor that he burned his furniture to keep warm.

Many people do not know these facts Edgar Allen Poe. They are not very well known facts but important to his history and the understanding of his life.