Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House Museum - Bryantown, Md - History Museums on Waymarking.com

The museum has many exhibits as to what the house looked like inside and outside at the time of Dr. Mudd's occupancy. At the time I visited the house in 1995 their was an encampment at the house.

From the website below:
"Sam was a 31-year-old country doctor, and the father of four children (Andrew, Lillian, Thomas, and Samuel A. Mudd, II), when President Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., on Good Friday, April 14th, 1865. The assassin, actor John Wilkes Booth, broke his leg while fleeing the scene and needed medical attention. Accompanied on horseback by David Herold, Booth arrived at Dr. Mudd’s home at 4 a.m., April 15th. Sam splinted the broken limb and let the travelers rest for several hours in an upstairs bedroom before they continued their journey later that afternoon. Leaving by way of a dirt road, Booth and Herold proceeded to Samuel Cox’s house in Bel Alton, Maryland, arriving later that same evening. On April 21st they crossed the river to Virginia and made their way to the Garrett farm near Bowling Green. In the early morning hours of April 26th, two weeks after the assassination, Union cavalry surrounded a tobacco shed where Booth was sleeping. They set fire to the shed. Booth was shot while trying to escape the flames. He died on the Garrett front porch."


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Theme: Cultural History Street Address: 3725 Dr. Samuel Mudd Road, Waldorf, MD 20601 Food Court: no Gift Shop: yes Hours of Operation: The museum is open for tours Wednesdays and Saturdays from 11 am to 4 pm. It is open on Sundays from Noon to 4 pm. The final tour begins at 3:30 pm on all days that the museum is open. Cost: 10.00 (listed in local currency) Museum Size: Medium Relevant Web Site: [Web Link]

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Date Logged Log User Rating   03/16/2023 Don.Morfe visited it