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Feb 13, 2011

Looking Back: Mary Surratt Boarding House

Walking down H Street NW in D.C.’s small Chinatown, I don’t give much consideration to the past of the buildings. While surely the few block stretch wasn’t always Chinatown, I didn’t realize that one of the buildings, that now hosts restaurant Wok and Roll, is where John Wilkes Booth conspired to kill Abraham Lincoln.

 
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