Georgetown was a thriving, antebellum tobacco port, key to the founding of the nation’s capital, a place of bitter contention during the Civil War, long a site of political scandal and mysterious deaths, as well as a cockpit of Cold War, WW2, and current espionage, even home to several of America’s most influential inventors.

A perfect place for a walking tour of ghosts, scandal, murder, spies, horror, misbehavior and intrigue, bracketed by some of the nation’s finest architecture and bistros!

MEET: Outside the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, on the southeast corner of Reservoir Rd. and 35th St. N.W. DC.

The action-packed itinerary will select from the following persons & events:

• America’s craziest house

• George Washington’s bodyguard, and a presidential murder

• The spy whose schemes killed dozens of CIA operatives

• The first woman to win the Congressional Medal of Honor

• Assassination conspiracies

• Mysterious hideaways for runaway slaves

• The neighborhood’s old Red Light district

• The femme fatale who bedeviled the KGB

• Mysteries of the Old Stone House