Tour of Congressional Cemetery - Saturday, November 3

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Thanks to Laurie for sending this information:

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TOUR OF CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERY SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3;
11am – 1pm

Meet at the Gatehouse, 1801 E St SE
Potomac Avenue Metro Station
Tour is Free! Donations to the cemetery fund are welcome! RSVP Craig Howell at 202--462-0535 or craighowell1@verizon.net
Note: Craig will be out of town from October 22 through 29.

Visit the gravesites of crucial (and colorful) figures from all periods of American and Washington History, including (but not limited to) people associated with President Lincoln and the Civil War period.

* Elbridge Gerry, remembered as the man who inspired the word "gerrymandering."

* William Thornton, Architect of the Capitol, the Octagon House, and Tudor Place.

* Commodore Thomas Tingey, first Superintendent of the Navy Yard.

* John Gadsby, owner of Alexandria's Gadsby Tavern.

* Robert Mills, considered America's first professional architect, who designed the Old Patent Office and the Treasury Building.

* Taza (son of Cochise) and Push-Ma-Ta-Ha, who died in Washington while representing the interests of his Choctaw tribe.

* Anne Royall, pioneering feminist and journalist, who was brought to trial for being "a public nuisance, a common brawler and a common scold."

* Benjamin French, Commissioner of Public Buildings during the Lincoln Administration and close friend of Mary Lincoln.

* Pioneering photojournalist Mathew Brady.

* Several Civil War generals, including A. A. Humphreys and Alfred Pleasanton.

* The Arsenal Monument, honoring the 21 young women killed in June 1864 at an explosion at the Washington Arsenal (today's Fort McNair); President Lincoln led the mourners at their burial.

* Mary Ann Hall, prominent businesswoman and philanthropist, who ran Washington's highest-rated brothel through much of the 19th century.

Last & least, we will stop to pay our disrespects at the unmarked grave of Davy Herold, one of the four people hung at the Washington Arsenal for their involvement with the Lincoln assassination