Yesterday marked the opening of the Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House Museum for the 2025 season. A few months ago, I put up a post encouraging everyone to visit and, if possible, volunteer at this wonderful museum that has grown so much in the last few years.
With the season now open, I wanted to give a little more advertising for one of the Mudd house’s special walking tours that will be happening this coming weekend, April 12 & 13, 2025. This special tour is called “Use all Efforts to Secure Him” and takes participants down the path John Wilkes Booth took away from the Mudd House and into the Zekiah swamp. This tour also highlights the search that took place around the Mudd property by the investigating authorities. This walking tour is only offered a few times each season, with this weekend marking the closest option to the anniversary of the events 160 years ago. I highly encourage anyone in the area to take part in this walking tour of the Mudd property. Lead docent Bob Bowser does a phenomenal job and there are brand new interpretive signs throughout the property to check out. Here’s the post from the Dr. Mudd House website with the details. Sign up to receive updates and emails from the Mudd website while you’re at it so you can keep up to date on all things Mudd.
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I use to play here as a kid. The mudd family were family friends and we all went to school together.