The most historial day we spent in Washington, D.C. was the day we visited Ford's Theatre and other notable landmarks relating to Abraham Lincoln. We started at Mary Surratt's Boarding House, where John Wilkes Booth was staying (and who is said to have conspired with Booth), which is located in what is now Chinatown. If you weren't looking for it, you would walk right by it, as the building is now an Asian convenience store.
From there, we walked several blocks to Ford's Theatre. We purchased tickets in advance but still waited an hour to go into the theater and learn a bit about how Booth planned the murder and was able to get access to the President. I read
Killing Lincoln last year, so felt like I was able to follow along with things really well.
The box Lincoln was seated in, decorated just as it was the evening he was shot.
After the program in the theater, we again waited in line to enter the Peterson House, which is the home across the street from the theater where Lincoln spent his final hours and died.
Mary Todd Lincoln passed some of the time here, while Lincoln was in the bed in the room next door.
Attached to the Peterson House is a three story museum about Lincoln's death - from the capture/death of Booth to the funeral train.
A tower (this photo doesn't do it justice) of books about Lincoln.
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