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Marker Details
- Subjects
- African Americans, Dayton, Poets
Picture Details
- Title
- Paul Laurence Dunbar House
- Caption
- Final home of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar at 219 Paul Laurence Dunbar Street in Dayton, Ohio, ca. 1940-1970. After Dunbar's death in 1906 his mother, Mathilda Dunbar, continued to live in the house until her death in 1934. In 1936 the Dunbar house became the first state memorial to honor an African American (AL01024).