Surratts Crossing is a diverse community of 50 beautiful home-sites convenient to restaurants, shopping, schools, a hospital, and much more. Located near the intersection of Surratts Road and Brandywine Road, our community offers much to be proud of most importantly the people we learn and work with, live near and share the world with – our neighbors!
Built in 1852 as a middle class plantation home, what we now know as the Surratt House Museum, also served as a tavern, a post office, and a polling place in the years leading up to the Civil War. Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt’s husband, owner of the home, died suddenly in 1862 leaving her with substantial debt. Her eldest son was off fighting for the Confederate Army so it was left to her youngest son, John Surratt, to help his mother. However, the nation was at war and eventually John began working as a Confederate courier. His associations would introduce his mother to a variety of people fighting for the rebel cause. Before long, Mrs. Surratt’s home became known as a “safe house” for Confederate spies.
In 1864 Surratt rented the home in Maryland to a tenant - John Lloyd, and with her daughter moved to her other home in Washington, D.C. to run it as a boarding house. It was in the Washington D.C. boarding house a conspiracy to kidnap Lincoln was devised. It was also there that she met actor John Wilkes Booth. On April 14th, 1865 during Booth's flight out of Washington, the assassin stopped at the Surratt tavern to retrieve weapons and supplies which had been hidden there. John Lloyd and a boarding house guest testified Surratt knew of the plot to kill the president. Ultimately, she was convicted on the law of conspiracy; that is she was as responsible for what happened as a result of the conspiracy as any of the others involved. When the verdict came in, four people went to prison and four were sentenced to death. On July 7th, 1865 Mary Surratt was hanged. She was the first American woman to be executed by the United States government. The project to turn Surratt’s home into a historic landmark - The Surratts House Museum, began in the early 1960’s and restoration began in 1973. On May 1st 1976 the Surratt House Museum opened its doors to the public. In the years since opening more of the surrounding grounds were acquired and in 1988 a visitors center and The James O. Hall Research Center was added. Today the Surratt House and Museum is a popular destination for Civil War buffs, school groups, and families.
About Clinton, Maryland
Clinton was founded in the 1770s. The town, then named Surratt's Villa, was actually a simple crossroads with a few buildings. In the 1800s, it became known as Surrattsville until after the American Civil War when ultimately it was renamed to Clinton. In 1913, Blossie Keubeth Miller founded a general store at the town's main intersection. The current commercial property BK Miller’s Meats and Liquors, built in the 1950s, is still owned by the Miller family.
Outside of being historically known for its role in the Abraham Lincoln assassination, Clinton is a family-oriented city. Clinton has mostly single-family housing, but includes a few townhouse developments and one retirement mid-rise. Southern Maryland Regional Hospital is in Clinton, as is a private airfield. Louise F. Cosca Regional Park, a public facility operated by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, offers camping, hiking, fishing in a lake, an excellent playground, and a nature museum. Clinton boasts several shopping complexes as well, and has a large fringe parking lot where Metro buses take passengers a few miles to the Branch Avenue station of the Washington Metrorail system.
About Prince George's County
Located minutes from downtown Washington D.C., Prince George’s County is the second-most populous county in Maryland, behind Montgomery County. It is the largest and one of the most affluent African American-majority counties in the United States. The county also hosts many federal governmental facilities, such as Joint Base Andrews and the United States Census Bureau headquarters.
Prince George’s County is named after Prince George of Denmark (1653–1708), the husband of Queen Anne of Great Britain from 1702 - 1714. The county's motto is Semper Eadem, translated "Ever the Same", a phrase used by Queen Anne. Prince George had an easy going manner and little interest in politics. Though none of their 17 children survived to adulthood, George and Anne’s marriage was a devoted, loving, and faithful one according to historians. Prince George’s County Maryland was named after him in 1696.
Clinton resides in the south county portion of Prince George’s County. South county is a blend of greenery and new development. The communities of Clinton, Oxon Hill, Temple Hills and Fort Washington are the largest areas of south county. It is the only portion of Prince George's County to enjoy the Potomac River waterfront, and that geographic distinction has yielded the rise of the National Harbor project: a town center and riverside shopping and living development on the Potomac. While the National Harborhas become a major tourist and convention attraction, with significant hotel accommodations, eateries and shopping, Prince George’s County is also home to many other top attractions in the area such as Six Flags America, Tanger Outlets, Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, FedEx Field, and the MGM National Harbor Resort Casino.