Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)

Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Philadelphia County, dedicated 2023.

2nd & Market St

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A Quaker, he is considered America’s first important novelist. His Gothic fiction depicts Philadelphia life and inspired Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. As an author, editor, and historian, he ad-dressed women’s rights, slavery, and political issues. Born nearby.

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1856 · Philadelphia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1979 · Important farmlands, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania (Penn State University Libraries)
1995 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
[Philadelphia and neighborhood]. (Library of Congress)

Philadelphia, 1856, covering the location of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810), with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Philadelphia, 1856, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Marker data: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission via data.pa.gov

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