In 1776 British Admiral Howe called a peace conference here in an effort to end the revolution. The talks failed when Howe couldn’t offer independence, and the war lasted seven more years.
Lewis Latimer was the son of escaped slaves, and went on to become an important inventor and the only African-American member of Thomas Edison’s engineering division at the Edison Company.
It might not be your vision of Wayne Manor, but the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage is Batman’s real birthplace. His creators thought up the caped crusader while sitting on a bench outside the cottage.
