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From fords theater where Abraham Lincoln was shot 150 years ago. James this is an interesting house that has a great history even before Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. This house was built in the early 1850s by a german immigrant to america, William Petersen, and he used the house as a boardinghouse. Up to 10 or 12 people lived here at a time. This is a relic of 19th century civil war boardinghouse culture. Once upon a time, everybody lived in boardinghouses, congressmen, senators, even Vice President s lived in group homes. This house, aside from the history of being where Abraham Lincoln died, is an important part of antebellum and the civil war washington, d. C. , history. Aside from this being the l ....
Surrender of robert e. Lee on april 9th. Everyone was inside of the theater, the play was under way. Lincolns carriage pulled and up stopped in front of that big gas lamp and lincoln went inside. And then around 10 15 or 10 20 p. M. The doors of fords theater burst open. First dozens then hundreds then over a thousand people came rushing out those doors screaming. At first some people thought the theater was on fire. Then they heard the shouts, lincolns been shot, the president s been killed, burn the theater, filed the assassin. The first person who noticed what was happening was a guy named George Francis who lived on the first floor of the two front rooms. He came outside and walked into the street and he could only get halfway across. He walked right up to the president s body as it was being carried across the street. Another boarder on the second floor, henry safford, went outside and he saw the commotion too. He heard the s ....
Aside from the lincoln death house, this is a great museum of immigrant culture in washington and boarding house life in washington, d. C. I have been coming here years, making pilgrimages here. I started coming here in 1986 when i joined the Reagan Administration and i have been coming here for years. I am very excited that this year for the 150th anniversary there will be a big commemoration for Abraham Lincoln. In past years, i am usually here alone. No one comes here on the night of assassination, no one comes to honor lincoln. I might find one or two here on the steps of Peterson House and contemplate what happened. Couple years ago, park Service Almost arrested me sitting on the steps because the guard across the street accused me of being a homeless l ....