Dr. Samuel Mudd's house

Samuel Alexander Mudd I, M.D. (December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883) was an American physician who was convicted and imprisoned for aiding and conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the 1865 assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. He was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson and released from prison four years later.

Booth stayed here on April 15th. 1865 on his escape from Washington after his assasination of President Lincold the day earlier.