What we’re about
Our tours take place in Washington, D.C.--Lafayette Square, Capitol Hill, Georgetown, et al.--Alexandria, Virginia, and other historic sites such as Civil War battlefields in Antietam, Maryland. The tours last about 2 hours, and typically cost about $20 per person.
Washington, D.C. and nearby towns like Alexandria, Virginia drip with history and political intrigue--from colonial times to the present day. This is a group aimed at those eager to explore the often-violent and scandalous past of the nation's capital and its surroundings--its wars, espionage rings, assassination attempts, mayhem and misbehaviors, as well as more uplifting events--against its backdrop of architectural splendor and breathtaking vistas.
Detailed itineraries!:
Lafayette Square--White House, Andrew Jackson statue, Stephen Decatur House, slave annex, Dolley Madison House, St. John's Church, Frederick Douglass bank, Lafayette statue, Blair-Lee House, Renwick Gallery, Treasury Dept., Eisenhower Executive Office Building...Learn about: The assassination attempt on a President-one block from the White House!…The war-hero congressman who murdered his wife’s lover…The tragic suicide of the wife of America’s most esteemed author…The brutal stabbing of a Secretary of State…The ruthless spy who lost the U.S. Army a major battle…The scandal that caused the entire presidential Cabinet to resign!..And much more! And it all happened in Lafayette Square, across from the White House in Washington, D.C.
This tour starts and ends at the Andrew Jackson statue.
Old Town Alexandria, Virginia--the Torpedo Factory, the John Carlisle mansion, the Stabler-Ledbetter pharmacy museum, Lawrence Washington's House, George Washington's town house, Founder's Park, the City Hall, the John Wise tavern, Gadsby's Museum and restaurant, Christ Church, Robert E. Lee's boyhood home, the Lee-Fendall House, the old cotton mill, the Presbyterian Meeting House.
This tour typically starts at the Torpedo Factory and ends at Christ Church.
Capitol Hill--the Supreme Court, the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Library of Congress, the 9/11 memorial, the Anne Frank memorial, the Peace Memorial, the President Garfield statue, the Inauguration steps, the Ulysses S. Grant memorial, the Frederick Law Olmstead grotto, the Sullivan Brothers memorial, the hidden cornerstone of the Capitol.
This tour starts at the Supreme Court Building and ends at the Ulysses S. Grant memorial.
What We Do--"Walking history seminars": walking group tours of the most historic venues in Washington, D.C., Alexandria, Virginia, and other towns.
Where We Go--We tour historic, atmospheric neighborhoods and sites such as Lafayette Square, the Capitol Building grounds, Georgetown, Old Town Alexandria, the Navy Yard area, and the Antietam Civil War battlefield.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- City Hall to 17th St--Tour of Lafayette Square & White House Neighborhood D.C.!The John Wilson Building, Washington, DC$22.50
City Hall to 17th St--Tour of Lafayette Square & White House Neighborhood D.C.!, Tuesday, May 14, 2 pm!!
Take a fun and fascinating tour of Washington's most historic neighborhood, centered on the White House park!
Where: Meet in front of the D.C. City Hall, northeast corner, John Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC
Pre-Register and Prepay via—
Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/city-hall-to-17th-st-tour-of-lafayette-square-white-house-neighborhood-tickets-892538044317?aff=oddtdtcreator
Airbnb:
https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/412812
Or PayPal, sending $22 to savvyveteran@gmail.com
https://www.paypal.com/us/homeIn this weekday tour, let's visit sites associated with the most astonishing evets in the capital city's past, in its most famous locale.
• Where the President and his fiancé escaped death
• The city's most controversial mayors
• The hotel that birthed a scandalous Washington practice
• When John Wilkes Booth encountered General Grant
• The cunning Mata Hari who caused the deaths of hundreds of U.S. soldiers
• The battle between the U.S. Army and U.S. Army veterans
• The sex scandal that wiped out an entire Cabinet
• Terrifying White House ghost tales
• The wily lass who gulled a brutal foreign enemy
• The greatest slave escape in American history
• The secret symbols within Lafayette Square’s architecture
• Graveyards and race tracks in the Square of old
• The civil rights lady who got the last laugh on her adversaries
• The spy who saved Mt. Vernon
• An invading army’s destruction of the Executive Mansion
• The femme fatale who nearly broke up Camelot
• Where MLK wrote the “I Have a Dream Speech”, and where America’s most uplifting martial anthem was penned
• The Midnight Ride of—not who’d you’d expect
• Duels to the death in the Old Republic
• The First Lady who saved President's Park
• A traitorous head of the U.S. Army
• Heroine of DC's first pandemic
And more!!Who: Your host is a former writer for Jay Leno’s “The Tonight Show”, a former presidential speechwriter, and writer of a book on the history of Lafayette Square:
https://www.amazon.com/White-Houses-Unruly-Neighborhood-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B082ZVDCD7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1555118270&sr=1-1-catcorr
And his latest, a thriller set in historic Old Town Alexandria, Virginia--
https://www.amazon.com/OLD-TOWN-HORROR-Americas-Historic-ebook/dp/B0BX27RWYG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
And his book on the secret history of the Capitol Building and Congress!:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-lost-history-of-the-capitol-edward-p-moser/1139708776
Ntm his Lafayette Square book:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-white-houses-unruly-neighborhood-edward-p-moser/1131103788We’re on TripAdvisor!:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.htmlQuestions? Ask here, or at: savvyveteran@gmail.com
Think history’s boring? Think again!!
- Memorial Day History Tour of the White House & National Mall!John Paul Jones Memorial, Washington, DC$22.00
Examine almost 250 years of U.S. history in this unique walking tour, on Memorial Day, around the environs of the home of America's Commanders-in-Chief.
Our packed itinerary will draw from:
o "I have not yet begun to fight!"
o The locale where the most famous military anthem was written
o The real-life Indiana Jones
o Where the sea battle of Midway was won--on the National Mall.
o The World War One memorial park
o The Commander-in-Chief who saved the most lives
o The Broadway star who was a war hero at Yorktown
o The humble woman who faced down an enemy general
o The wartime start of "Hooker's Alley"
o The official who brokered America's first Civil War--of 1794
o How Northern belles and Southern bankers saved the home of the first U.S. Army head
o Where Frederick Douglass worked after recruiting troops for the Union Army
o How Lafayette got the last laugh on the kings of Europe
o Where Dolley Madison saved what became the National Archives
o President Jackson's astonishing strategy to defeat the world's best military
o The greatest of the early U.S. Navy heroes
o The secret of George Washington's martinet
o How the "Paul Revere of the South" saved the American Revolution
o The scoundrel who saved the Battle of Gettysburg
o The "hero of three nations"
o The future President who cared for war-torn Europe
o The famed General who transformed defeated Japan.
o The War and Navy department buildings, from 1799 to 1940.
o The greatest caregiver to America's soldiers.
o Thrilling monuments to the Army's most valiant units.
And more!Your guide is a former Presidential speechwriter, former Tonight Show writer, and author of history-laden thriller, The Old Town Horror:
THE OLD TOWN HORROR: Murder and Theft in America’s Most Historic Locale - Kindle edition by Moser, Edward P.. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
And of The White House's Unruly Neighborhood:
https://www.amazon.com/White-Houses-Unruly-Neighborhood-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B082ZVDCD7
And the Lost History of the Capitol:
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-History-Capital-Tumultuous-Congress/dp/1493055909
And the Two-Term Jinx:
https://www.amazon.com/Two-Term-Jinx-Presidents-Washington-Theodore-Roosevelt-ebook/dp/B01K0NT0CK/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Preregister and Prepay via:
Airbnb:
https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/412812
Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/memorial-day-history-tour-of-the-white-house-neighborhood-may-27-tickets-840651530357?aff=oddtdtcreator
Or via PayPal send $22 to:
savvyveteran@gmail.comMEET at the Commander John Paul Jones statue on 17th St. across from the WW2 memorial.
Nearest Metro stop: Smithsonian.Celebrate U.S. military history, on Memorial Day, at some of America's most historic locales.
- Secret History Tour of Lafayette Square & White House Neighborhood DC!Lafayette Square, Washington, DC$22.00
Secret History Tour of Lafayette Square & the White House Neighborhood!!
Take a fun trip back into the wild history of D.C.’s most famous sites!
Where: Meet at the General Jackson statue in the middle of Lafayette Square.Pre-Register and Prepay via—
Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/secret-history-tour-of-lafayette-square-the-white-house-neighborhood-tickets-851783075107?aff=oddtdtcreator
Airbnb:
https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/412812
Or PayPal, sending $22 to savvyveteran@gmail.com
https://www.paypal.com/us/homeWhat: Perhaps because of its proximity to great power and wealth, the White House, Treasury Building, and Lafayette Square have been witness to two centuries of astonishing events. We will visit many actual sites of startling history, drawing from the following:
• The hidden architecture of the White House
• The bodyguard who saved Lincoln's life, and the soldier who failed to do so
• The enslaved woman who triggered a civil rights revolution
• The cunning Mata Hari of the Civil War
• Treasury, State Department, and Defense Department spies
• The biggest sex scandal in American history
• White House ghost tales
• The tragic end of a noted female artist
• The greatest slave escape in American history
• The secret symbols within the Square
• The hero of two continents
• The hero of three nations
• Horse races and graveyards in the Square of old
• When an invading army arrived at the Executive Mansion
• The femme fatale who nearly broke up "Camelot"
• Where America’s most uplifting martial anthem was penned
• The Civil War—of Alexander Hamilton!
• The Midnight Ride of—not who’d you’d expect
• The First Lady who saved President's Park
• Duels to the death in the Old Republic
And more!!Who: Your host is a former writer for Jay Leno’s “The Tonight Show”, the author of the book America from A to Z, a former presidential speechwriter, and writer of a book on the history of Lafayette Square:
https://www.amazon.com/White-Houses-Unruly-Neighborhood-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B082ZVDCD7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1555118270&sr=1-1-catcorr
And his latest, a thriller set in historic Old Town Alexandria, Virginia--
https://www.amazon.com/OLD-TOWN-HORROR-Americas-Historic-ebook/dp/B0BX27RWYG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
And his book on the secret history of the Capitol Building and Congress!:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-lost-history-of-the-capitol-edward-p-moser/1139708776We’re on TripAdvisor:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.html
Nearest metro stations: Farragut North and West
Restaurants nearby for afterwards at the Old Ebbitt Grill and the HamiltonQuestions? Ask here, or at: savvyveteran@gmail.com
Think history’s boring? Think again!!