Walt Whitman
(1819-1892) Poet. Walt Whitman moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1823, when he was four years old, and lived there for much of his life. He taught school in Woodbury, New York; the schoolhouse has been restored. West Hills, Huntington Station, New York is the site of Whitman’s birth, built in 1819 by Whitman’s father, … Continued