Halloween Tour of Oak Hill Cemetery

Join a Halloween tour of Oak Hill Cemetery on Sunday November 8. 2026 from 1:45 pm to 4:00 pm. Meet outside the cemetery’s gatehouse at 3001 R Street in Georgetown. Your tour guide is Ed Moser, a former writer for the “Tonight Show”, and ex-White House speechwriter and writer. Purchase tickets here.

One of D.C.’s most historic locales, Oak Hill Cemetery is the resting place of many famous persons from the antebellum, Civil War, & contemporary times.

It is or was the resting place of many famous persons from the antebellum, Civil War, & contemporary eras. Including Presidents and generals, spies and architects, Don Juans and femme fatales. And many ghost sightings in the graveyards!!

Tips: Wear comfortable shoes, as there’s a fair amount of walking on sometimes uneven ground.

The action-packed itinerary will draw from the following:

• The home of the CIA's founder

• The grave of Lincoln’s son

• The creators of the Computer Age

• A private tour of James Renwick’s chapel

• Ghost and goblins!

• The home of Georgetown’s Founding Family

• Ambassadors and Secretaries of State

• The architect of Eastern Market and the National Portrait Gallery

• The handsome fellow & the femme fatale who sparked DC’s worst sex scandal

• Descendants of Martha Washington

• The stately mausoleum designed by the architect of Capitol Building and Arlington National Cemetery.

• The D.A. murdered by a Congressman

• The grave of the President of the Confederacy, before it was moved!

• A songwriter honored by Presidents

• The city’s first African-American teacher

• The grove of female Confederate spies

• The grave of the desecrated chief Mason

• Lincoln's Secretary of War

• Results of the city’s first great pandemic.

And more!Who:

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-History-Capitol-Tumultuous-Congress/dp/B09L…

And his forthcoming book on Georgetown history:

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