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Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site
This article is about the Walt Whitman House in West Hills, New York. For the Walt Whitman House in Camden. New Jersey, see Walt Whitman House.
United States historic place
The Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site is a state historic site in West Hills, New York, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The site preserves the birthplace of American poetWalt Whitman.[2]
History
The Whitman family's connection to Long Island dates back to the early 17th century and their property once covered 500 acres.[3] Walter Whitman Sr., father of the poet, built this farmhouse in West Hills near Huntington, New York in 1816.
Whitman Sr. was a Quaker and a carpenter and he built the two-story, cedar-shingled farmhouse by hand.[4] The future poet was born here three years later in 1819.[5] The Whitman family's other three children were born here as well.
When Walt Jr. was five years old