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“Historic home with connections to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln”
Dr. Mudd was the southern Maryland doctor who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth the morning after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Although Mudd’s role in the conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln has been debated, the doctor received a life sentence for harboring Booth and his accomplice, and was sent to Fort Jefferson, now part of Dry Tortugas National Park. After serving a little more than three years of his sentence, Mudd received a pardon from President Andrew Johnson. Today, the doctor’s original home has been preserved as the Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House Museum, located just outside Waldorf.
Great tour, pretty reasonably priced, and the tour guide was dressed nicely with a bow tie and was very knowledgeable on Dr Mudd. It was really round the clock touring, as when we arrived, they... Read more
The Dr Mudd house closed their gates at 3:28 when they were scheduled to close at 4:00 pm, with the last tour being at 3:30. Despite arriving on time entrance was denied. Very bad customer service. Read more
This museum did a good job highlighting not only Booth's medical care by Dr. Mudd, but also had many artifacts from Dr. Mudd's time imprisoned at Fort Jefferson (now Dry Tortugas National Park in... Read more
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