Tour of Historic, Scary, Scenic Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown D.C.

What: Georgetown’s venerable Oak Hill Cemetery is, with Congressional Cemetery in Southeast, one of D.C.’s most historic burial grounds. It is or was the resting place of many famous persons from the antebellum, Civil War, & contemporary eras. Including Presidents and generals, spies and architects, Don Juans and femme fatales. And many ghost sightings in the graveyards!!

Length of tour: About 2 hours.

Where: Meet outside the cemetery’s gatehouse, at 3001 R St NW, Washington, DC 20007

Questions? Contact this site, or: savvyveteran@gmail.com

Tips: Wear comfortable shoes, as there’s a fair amount of walking on sometimes uneven ground.

Our action-packed itinerary will draw from the following!:

• The nearby home of the CIA's founder

• The grave of Lincoln’s son

• The creators of the Computer Age

• A private tour of James Renwick’s chapel

• Ghost and goblins!

• The son of the man who survived a duel with President Andrew Jackson

• The home of Georgetown’s Founding Family

• Ambassadors and Secretaries of State

• The architect of Eastern Market and the National Portrait Gallery

• The handsome fellow & the femme fatale who sparked DC’s worst sex scandal

• The D.A. murdered by a Congressman

• Descendants of Martha Washington

• The stately mausoleum designed by the architect of Capitol Building and Arlington National Cemetery.

• The grave of the President of the Confederacy, before it was moved

• The gravesite designed by the architect of the Capitol Building’s rotunda.

• Results of the city’s first great pandemic.

• The lovely chapel built by the builder of New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

• The city’s first African-American teacher

• The mogul of the modern newspaper

• The grove of female Confederate spies

• The grave of the desecrated chief Mason

• The Secretary of War of the Civil War

Who: Your guide is a former writer for the “Tonight Show”, and ex-White House speechwriter, & writer of such books as:

The Lost History of the Capitol!:

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-History-Capitol-Tumultuous-Congress/dp/B09LVXZB8T/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

The White House’s Unruly Neighborhood!:

https://www.amazon.com/White-Houses-Unruly-Neighborhood-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B082ZVDCD7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1555118270&sr=1-1-catcorr

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Take a stroll with fellow culture & history lovers through one of the capital city’s most evocative locales.