Historical Highway Markers

Where Booth Died

N-16

On this road two miles south is the Garrett place. There John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin, was found by Union cavalry and killed while resisting arrest, April 26, 1865.

Conservation & Development Commission, 1928

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