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Tours with Ed Bearss |
John
Wilkes Booth Escape Route
with Ed Bearss |
The largest
manhunt up to that time, the 1865 search for Abraham Lincoln's
assassin lasted two weeks. How did John Wilkes Booth and
his accomplice, Davy Herold, elude local and military search
parties? We learned who helped them and why by following
Ed Bearss through the dark streets of Washington, the backwoods
of Maryland, and the watery shores of eastern Virginia. |
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Fort
Delaware and Pea Patch Island
with Ed Bearss |
Pierre
L'Enfant recognized this site as strategically significant
and recommended that
a fort
be built on Pea Patch Island to defend the cities of
Philadelphia and New York. Several forts have been located here
since 1819. This concrete and brick version was
finished in 1859, two years before the Civil War.
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