I'm a closet history nerd

Surratt House

sign pretty much says it all

imagine using a stove that small sugar came in cones and the granules were scraped off. Also, white sugar was a luxary, brown sugar was more common

imagine sleeping in this bed, actually try 3 people

Singer sewing machine from the 1860sattic

With us only being in Maryland for this year, I have been fully taking advantage of being near our nation's capital and surround cities that are home to many historical sites. This year I have been to the Gettysburg Battlefield, the cemetery when Lincoln delivered the famous Gettysburg address, the Ford Theater to the house across the street when Lincoln died, the house on H Street where Mary Surratt lived (she was tied to the assassination plot of President Lincoln and was the first woman executed by the federal government), the Lincoln Memorial, to the National Archives that houses the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, Mt. Vernon the home of President Washington, and most recent the Surratt tavern and boardinghouse in Clinton, MD where John Wilkes Boothe stayed and likely plotted the assassination scheme. It was really neat to visit the tavern to complete seeing the sites linked to that day in April of 1865. After reading the Assassin's Accomplish (def read it if you enjoy history and because it is never taught in school), I have been wanting to go. As the docent told the tour group, the house is an important depiction of a middle class style house in the 1800s. It also have me a glimpse of what it was like to stay in a boardinghouse. The house had a lot of restoration and because the house was never fully paid for by the Surratt family, much of the contents of the house are not original since its contents were sold to make up the difference. A few pieces do belong to the family. If you are reading this and hate history, I'm sorry, but at least you can appreciate what life was like back then.