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Apr 10, 2015 · A self-guided tour from Ford's Theater to Garrett's Farm, Virginia, with stops at historical sites and landmarks along the way. Learn about Booth's plan, his accomplices, his injuries, and his fate on this 12-day journey.
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With the outbreak of the American Civil War, Washington, D.C., turned into the training ground, arsenal, supply depot, and nerve center for the Union cause. Newly formed regiments encamped in every quarter, and streets reverberated under the wheels of cannons. Cattle for meat grazed on the National Mall; sacks of flour, stacked against siege, surro...
Start your day at the Surratt House Museum, built in 1852 as a middle-class plantation home. During the war, it was a safe house for the Confederate underground which flourished in Southern Maryland. It was the country home of Mary Surratt, first woman to be executed by the U.S. government after being found guilty of conspiring to assassinate Abrah...
Explore other sites in Southern Maryland and/or Annapolis. Possible additions are: • Point Lookout State Park - Originally a small resort community, this picturesque site became a Union hospital and then a prison holding captured Confederate soldiers. By June 1864 more than 20,000 prisoners crowded the camp. Terrible conditions led to the deaths of...
Apr 1, 2021 · Follow the 90-mile trail of Booth and Herold from Ford's Theatre to their capture and death in Virginia. See historic sites and museums along the way, such as Surratt Tavern, Dr. Mudd's House, and the Potomac River crossing.
The Surratt Society sponsors tours each fall and spring along Booth’s escape route. Many of the same roads and houses used by Booth are still in existence and are visited on this excursion which is narrated by nationally-recognized authorities on the Lincoln assassination and John Wilkes Booth’s flight. The cost of the 12-hour bus tour is ...
Apr 15, 2023 · John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre and fled via Baptist Alley, behind the theater. Booth rode on horseback down to Pennsylvania Avenue and 11 th Street to the Navy Yard Bridge. The actor escaped the city by talking his way across the closed bridge, as the sentries had not yet heard about the assassination.
View this map to follow the escape route of John Wilkes Booth
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Aug 24, 2019 · Begin your tour of John Wilkes Booth’s escape route in an unlikely place, the Wok n’ Roll restaurant in Washington DC’s Chinatown. The Chinese restaurant is housed in the actual building that was Mary Surratt’s boarding house in 1865, and was the frequent meeting place of Booth and his co-conspirators in their plot to kidnap Lincoln.
