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Today I’d like to take a slight change of pace with a look at an area that is not often associated with Edgar Allan Poe, but an area in which the Allan family vacationed - White Sulphur Springs during the summers of 1812, 1813, and 1814. Prior to the Civil War, the White Sulphur Springs area was called western Virginia, but all that changed when West Virginia became a state in 1863.
Now it would have taken roughly three days for the Allans to travel from Richmond to Charlottesville, then two days (the way the schedules for carriages were structured) to travel the 30 miles from Charlottesville to Staunton, and at least three days to travel from Staunton to White Sulphur Springs. This podcast episode will concentrate on several events in the 19th century that occurred in Staunton - a town that means a great deal to me because it is where I was born, grew up, and lived over half my life.