Tour DC's Secrets--White House's Lafayette Square to the Lincoln Memorial!

Secret History Tour--White House's Lafayette Square to the Lincoln Memorial!!

Take a fun trip back into the wild history of D.C.’s most famous sites!
Where: Meet at the General Jackson statue in the middle of Lafayette Square.

What: We will visit many actual sites of startling history, drawing from the following:

• The hidden architecture of the White House
• Hidden history of the stunning Lincoln Memorial

• The bodyguard who saved Lincoln's life, and the soldier who failed to do so
• The disputes behind the Vietnam War Memorial

• The enslaved woman who triggered a civil rights revolution
• The compromises behind the impressive Korean War memorial

• The cunning Mata Hari of the Civil War
• Espionage on the National Mall

• 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 greatest slave escape in American history
• 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
• Before it became Constitution Avenue

• The femme fatale who nearly broke up "Camelot"
• Where America’s most uplifting martial anthem was penned
• The Civil War—of Alexander Hamilton!
• Why the Washington Monument took a century to build

• The Midnight Ride of—not who’d you’d expect
• The First Lady who saved President's Park
• Duels to the death in the Old Republic
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, a thriller set in historic 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=

And his book on the secret history of the Capitol Building and Congress!:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-lost-history-of-the-capitol-edward-p-moser/1139708776

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]

Think history’s boring? Think again!!

Where: Meet at the General Jackson statue in the middle of Lafayette Square.

Event Venue

General Andrew Jackson Statue, General Andrew Jackson Statue, Washington, United States