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RJNorton · 06-10-2016, 01:12 PM

Thank you to Laurie for sending this link:

https://www.facebook.com/FtAPHill/photos...=3&theater

In 1865 The Trap (or Trappe) was a tavern (perhaps also a "house of entertainment") operated by Mrs. Carter and her four daughters. After Booth was dropped off at the Garretts' home, David Herold (and the 3 Confederate soldiers he was with) visited The Trappe in Delos. Unless someone corrects me, it was my understanding that the original building no longer stands.

Dave Taylor · 06-10-2016, 02:13 PM

Kate and I have been signed up for this for a couple of weeks. We'll be taking pictures and tweeting about it.

Roger, you are correct. The Trap no longer stands, but it is very very rare that the general public is allowed to visit the Delos area of Fort A.P. Hill. I'm going to test to see how generous they will be in order to see if I can see further up the road from Delos to the A.P. Hill side of the Garrett property. The original road (I think) that went by the Garretts' still exists inside A.P. Hill. I'm not sure if I'll be able to get that far north on the base (especially since it's not really in the Delos area) but I'm going to try.

L Verge · (This post was last modified: 06-10-2016 02:58 PM by L Verge.)

Mr. Hall was told that there was an original Garrett graveyard still on AP Hill, but no one was allowed to go there because the area might have unexploded shells. This was back in the 1960s, I believe. I questioned why they would fire on an area containing a graveyard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad6jhB6P3Vw This is a nostalgic video/oral history on the various families and villages that had their lives disrupted when the U.S. Army came to town. I have seen a similar book, but don't remember where. It reminded me of what went on in my area when thousands of acres, homes, villages, churches, etc. were turned over to the government to create Andrews Field (now Joint Base Andrews) at the beginning of WWII.

I never knew that the Fort/Camp A.P. Hill was used in 1942 as the staging area for the headquarters and corps troops of Gen. George Patton's Task Force A, which later became part of the Allied invasion of French North Africa.

Linda Anderson · 06-10-2016, 03:34 PM

Thanks for posting the link to Wealthy in Heart, Laurie.

I posted about the book a while ago.

http://rogerjnorton.com/LincolnDiscussio...ht=wealthy

L Verge · 06-10-2016, 03:50 PM

That's why I remember the book! Loved it! Please read Linda's link if you have not done so already.

Dave Taylor · 06-11-2016, 11:00 PM

Kate and I had a wonderful time out at Fort A. P. Hill today seeing the site of The Trap. I blogged about the history of the tavern and included some pictures of the area: https://boothiebarn.com/2016/06/11/a-visit-to-the-trap/

RJNorton · 06-12-2016, 05:41 AM

Thanks, Dave. I found what you had to say about Mrs. Carter and her girls to be most interesting. I was one who previously had the "traditional" view of The Trap and its "activities."

davg2000 · 06-12-2016, 08:51 AM

"Wealthy in Heart" is terrific! Somewhere around the 9-minute mark on the film, there is a brief viewing of a photo captioned "the old Garrett home" (or something similar). Is this a photo of the Richard Garrett home?

One speaker in the film said that his father was given $5 per acre for his land. (That's a little over $76 in today's money.) No arguments.

There is also a brief viewing of the Smithers' Store, referred to in Dave Taylor's latest Boothie Barn.

L Verge · 06-12-2016, 10:49 AM

(06-12-2016 08:51 AM)davg2000 Wrote: "Wealthy in Heart" is terrific! Somewhere around the 9-minute mark on the film, there is a brief viewing of a photo captioned "the old Garrett home" (or something similar). Is this a photo of the Richard Garrett home?

One speaker in the film said that his father was given $5 per acre for his land. (That's a little over $76 in today's money.) No arguments.

There is also a brief viewing of the Smithers' Store, referred to in Dave Taylor's latest Boothie Barn.

I believe the house shown on the video is yet another Garrett family home. Mr. Hall was led to believe that the old graveyard was near an earlier house for one of the Garretts.

Many moons ago, I posted here about what it was like (as an eight-year-old) to hear a government agent announce to your mother and grandmother (Dad was in Korea) that our ancestral home would be bulldozed down in order to make way for a dual-lane highway. Prim and proper Victorian grandmothers are not supposed to give out war hoops!

Mom drove back and forth to Baltimore every day for two weeks (50 miles one way) to fight the government and won - to a degree. They moved the big old house instead of bulldozing it.