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Edgar Allan Poe in an 1860s portrait by Oscar Halling from a daguerreotype. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Nevermore on this corner! Poe statue in Virginia to be relocated

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson
Edgar Allan Poe in an 1860s portrait by Oscar Halling from a daguerreotype. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Edgar Allan Poe in an 1860s portrait by Oscar Halling created from a daguerreotype. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Officials in Virginia are relocating a statue of Edgar Allan Poe.

The Poe statue will no longer be located on the southwest corner of Capitol Square in Richmond. Instead, it will be moved to the northwest corner.

The state’s Department of General Services says the move ensures Poe won’t be overshadowed. Planned monuments to Native Americans and women are being added to the southwest corner, and their scale would diminish the Poe statue.

On the northwest corner, Poe’s statue will be surrounded by statues of similar size.

The move is expected to occur this week.

The statue honoring the author of The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart has been in Richmond since 1959.

Poe was born in Boston but lived for many years in Richmond.

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