Janius Brutus Booth, an London actor emigrated to America in 1821. Janius Booth settled on this property because of the pure water spring. The original house was a log cabin. Tudor Hall was built in 1847 by James Gifford who also built Ford's Theater where Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth. John Wiles was supposed to have practiced Romeo and Juliet from the balcony of the house. The Booth family had a winter home in Baltimore City in the Old Town near Hones Falls, that row home is now gone.
The Booth family is buried in the historic Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore.
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