Huntington Station, New York
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Huntington Station is a hamlet and census-designated place located within the Town of Huntington in Suffolk County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. It is considered part of the Greater Hun
The Huntington LIRR station in 2017
Walt Whitman
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Walter Whitman Jr. was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and world literature. Whitman inc
Huntington Station, New York
…The hamlet was named for the local, eponymous railroad station, and was originally known as "Fairground." Huntington Station was the birthplace of poet Walt Whitman. His home in the adjacent hamlet of South Huntington remains standing as a landmark, and is used as a museum. Across from the Walt Whitman Museum on…
Whitman in 1887
Whitman in July 1854, aged 35, from the frontispiece to Leaves of Grass from a lost daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison
Whitman's handwritten manuscript for "Broadway, 1861"
Whitman spent his last years at his home in Camden, New Jersey, which is open to the public as the Walt Whitman House.