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Mary Surratt's Boarding House
This is the boarding house which Mary Surratt operated and in which her son John (who escaped overseas), the actor John Wilkes Booth, and the other Lincoln conspirators plotted their crime. Originally hatched as kidnapping scheme, they switched to a multiple assassination plan once Lee surrendered at Appomattox. Targets included Abraham Lincoln, the Vice President, and the Secretary of State. Only the assassination of Lincoln went off as planned.
There had been a lot of careful casing of venues. A picture of Abraham Lincoln's inauguration shows three of the conspirators were standing near his podium.
Three days after the killing, Mary Surratt, a southern sympathizer, was arrested here. Her role in the conspiracy was never clearly proven although her son was part of it. She was hanged nevertheless.
The site is now a Chinese restaurant named Go-Lo's. |