A fun yet scary trip back into the wild history of D.C.’s most famous and infamous sites!About this Event
A Secret Halloween Tour of Lafayette Square & the White House Neighborhood, Thursday eve, Oct. 27!!
A fun yet scary trip back into the wild history of D.C.’s most famous and infamous sites! A chunk of the park has been opened up again, making for a good excuse for a tour!
Where: Meet near the General Jackson statue in the middle of Lafayette Square.
What: Perhaps because of its connections to great power and wealth, the White House, Treasury Building, and Lafayette Square have been witness to two centuries of astonishing, often bloody events.
We will visit many actual sites of startling history, drawing from the following:
• The bodyguard who saved Lincoln's life, and the soldier who failed to do so
• The assassin who stalked a President, in President's Park
• The enslaved woman who triggered a civil rights revolution
• The cunning Mata Hari of the Civil War, who costs thousands of lives
• Treasury, State Department, and Defense Department spies
• The biggest sex scandal in American history
• White House ghost tales
• The tragic end of a noted female artist
• The secret symbols within the Square
• The hero of two continents
• The hero of three nations
• Horse races and graveyards in the Square of old
• When an invading army arrived at the Executive Mansion
• The femme fatale who nearly broke up "Camelot"
• The Civil War—of Alexander Hamilton!
• The Midnight Ride of—not who’d you’d expect
• The tragic First Lady who saved President's Park
• Duels to the death in the Old Republic
• The killer who cheated the hangman
And more!!
Who: Your host is a former writer for Jay Leno’s “The Tonight Show”, the author of the book America from A to Z, a former presidential speechwriter, and writer of a book on the history of Lafayette Square:
https://www.amazon.com/White-Houses-Unruly-Neighborhood-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B082ZVDCD7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1555118270&sr=1-1-catcorr
And his latest, blood-soaked thrillers set in Georgetown and Old Town Alexandria, Virginia--
https://www.amazon.com/OLD-TOWN-HORROR-Americas-Historic-ebook/dp/B0BX27RWYG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
https://www.amazon.com/Femme-Fatalité-Lizzy-Thorne-Novel-ebook/dp/B0F4945MR5/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0
We’re on TripAdvisor:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.html
Nearest metro stations: Farragut North and West
Restaurants nearby for afterwards at the Old Ebbitt Grill and the Hamilton
Questions? Ask here, or at: [email protected]
Steel your nerves for a terrifying adventure!!
Event venue
Lafayette Square D.C., 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, United States
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