The island’s public library occupies part of Battery Gadsden, a former coastal-defense bunker, and is named for Edgar Allan Poe. Poe was stationed on Sullivan’s Island as a young soldier, and the setting later influenced stories including “The Gold-Bug.”
Filed under roadside oddities: giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
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Source: sullivansisland.sc.gov/node/120