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

A Daytime Tour of Scary, Historic, Scenic Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown D.C., July 13!

What: Georgetown’s venerable Oak Hill Cemetery is, with Congressional Cemetery, 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. Even 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: [email protected]

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

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

• The grave of Lincoln’s son

• The nearby home of the CIA's founder

• 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 the National Portrait Gallery

• A President's tribute to a famed songwriter

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

• The D.A. murdered by a Congressman

• Descendants of Martha Washington

• The city’s first African-American teacher

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

• The first grave of the President of the Confederacy

• Results of the city’s first great pandemic.

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

• Willard Hotel connections

• The grove of female Confederate spies

• The grave of the desecrated chief mason

• The moveable graveyard

• The Secretary of War of the Civil War

• Young lover of the Russian ambassador

And more!

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=

And his forthcoming book on the history of Georgetown, and Oak Hill Cemetery:

https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/georgetown-on-the-potomac/

Our top-ranked tours on TripAdvisor:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.html

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