On May 15, Georgetown Prep residents and resident staff traveled over 90 miles throughout Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, in the footsteps of John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.

The adventure was planned to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start to the American Civil War and the recent release of the movie, “The Conspirator,” about the assassination (which the residents and staff viewed the day before).

Over the course of 12 hours, the Resident Program traveled to Ford’s theatre and the Surratt Boarding House in D.C., Dr Samuel Mudd’s house and St Mary’s Church in Bryantown, Md (where Booth and Mudd first met), the site where Booth crossed the Potomac River into Virginia, and where he was eventually killed by Union troops nearly two weeks after the assassination.

The Resident Program also stopped at St. Ignatius Church in Port Tobacco, Md., the oldest active Catholic Church in America, and the site of much Jesuit history. Before returning home to Prep, the tired yet rewarded group treated themselves to a delicious Southern Maryland crab feast at Captain Billy’s Restaurant in Newburg, Md.