[SkateDC] Saturday Skate: Lincoln Assassination (9/5/09)

[George Marinkovich]

Leaves White House at 9 AM on Saturday (9/5/09)

13 mile skate, covering sites related to the Lincoln Assassination on April 14, 1865.

Route Cue Sheet

The White House
E on Pennsylvania Ave
R Jefferson Pl 
RGP #8  Jefferson Pl (Major Henry Rathbone's House, guest in Lincoln's box at Ford's)

E through Lafayette Park
RGP William Seward House (Secretary of State, attacked by Lewis Powell)

R Madison Pl
L Pennsylvania Ave
R 15th St
L Pennsylvania Ave
RGP Willard Hotel (Lincoln lodges here before 1st inaugural, Mrs. Grant sees Booth at lunch April 14)

Cross from NW to SE Freedom Plaza
Grover's Theatre (now National Theater, attended by Tad Lincoln on April 14)
Continue on Pennsylvania Ave
RGP Kirkwood House Hotel (12th and Pennsylvania, vice president Andrew Johnson's lodgings)

L 6th St
RGP National Hotel (now Newseum, Booths' hotel)

Pumphrey's Stable (6th and C Sts, now DC Court of Appeals, Booth rents get-away horse)
L H St 
RGP Mary Surratt's Boarding House (604 H St, now  Wok 'N Roll, nest where conspiracy was hatched)
L 10th St
RGP Ford's Theatre (Lincoln shot)
Peterson House (Lincoln dies)

Backtrack to F St
R Baptist's Alley (Edmund Spangler holds horse for Booth, Booth's escape begins here, heads toward Navy Yard Bridge to cross the Anacostia River into Maryland)
Backtrack to F St
R F St
R 3rd St
L Pennsylvania Ave
Around E Capitol Circle
Up N side of Capitol
E on Independence Ave
R Pennsylvania Ave
RGP Seward Square (named after Secretary of State, nearly killed on April, 14)

Continue E on Pennsylvania Ave
R 11th St
RGP at
 Anacostia River  (now 11th St Bridge, Booth crosses Navy Yard Bridge, on way to Surratt Tavern)

Backtrack to 0 St
Becomes Water St
L 12th St
L M St
R 11th St
R K St
Left on Potomac Ave
R E St
RGP Congressional Cemetery (David Herold and Matthew Brady graves)

L E St
L 11th St
R Pennsylvania Ave
L E St
L 8th St
RGP M St (Davy Herold Family House, gray building with green roof)
Washington Navy Yard (captured conspirators held aboard ship on Anacostia River)

R M St
L 4th St (4th and N Sts, Wheat Row, oldest section of townhouses in DC, 1793, neighborhood birthplace of Al Jolson and Marvin Gaye)

R P St
Fort McNair (formerly Old Arsenal Penitentiary, site of conspirator's trial and hanging)

Titanic Memorial
Along Potomac River
Into Water St
R 7th St
L C St
R 9th St
L Independence Ave
R 12th St Tunnel
RGP Pennsylvania Ave

L Pennsylvania Ave
R 15th St
L Pennsylvania Ave
The White House