Welcome to the Junius B. Booth Society, Inc. (JBBS) website. The Society was incorporated in Maryland in 2006 to educate the public and historians in the history of the Booth family and Tudor Hall. In 2007, the IRS granted it exemption from Federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Society welcomes all to join in its activities. As a fledgling and completely transparent organization, it needs your support and membership.

• Junius Brutus Booth, Sr. was the owner of Tudor Hall and a man who loved Harford County.
• Walt Whitman called him "the grandest histrion of modern times."
• Encyclopedia Britannica ranked Junius as one of the two most popular American actors in the period around 1830.
• In addition to being an actor, Junius was a teacher, innovative farmer, father, and scholar.
• Junius was Edwin Booth's father and teacher the father of the infamous John Wilkes Booth.
• Dr. Patrick Finelli in his book "A History of World Theater" ranks Edwin and Junius as among the top eight actors in the world in the 19-th Century.
• Junius was a passionate environmentalist ahead of his time. He did not believe in hurting any animal.
• Edwin has been called the greatest American actor of the 19-th Century.
• The Booth Theater on Broadway is named in memory of Edwin.
• The Players is a club that was founded by Edwin. It has one of the largest theater research libraries in the world. It is called the sacred home of the American theater.
• Edwin saved Lincoln's son's life.
• For over 140 years about a dozen or more books have been written per year about the Booths. This is an amazing record.

JUNIUS BRUTUS BOOTH, THE ELDER

Details on the painting and artist are given in Tudor Hall Captures the Imagination of Maryland Artist David Fried

About Us	Membership	Membership Brochure	Visiting Tudor Hall
Booth History Spotlight: October 2008			September 2009	January 2010
Annual Progress Reports: 2006		2007	2008	2009
Spirits of Tudor Hall	Spirits of Tudor Hall Blog		First Tudor Hall Alliance Meeting
Historical Soc. of Harford County:		Tudor Hall	Booth Research Center

For information on touring Tudor Hall with a guide, hit Visiting Tudor Hall above.

• Tudor Hall Support
  • Establishing a tour guide program at Tudor Hall in order to open the house for public tours on a regular basis
  • In order to properly restore and preserve Tudor Hall (house, grounds, and outbuildings), an archeological survey needs to be done on the property possibly using geophysical techniques performed on the grounds before the property is disturbed further. Possibilities include locating buried voids/cavities, disturbed earth, underground storage tanks, drainage patterns, sewers, foundations, ancient landfills, pipelines and cables. Characterize bedrock, the internal structure of floors/walls, water damage in concrete, and the internal steelwork in concrete. At Tudor Hall, we might locate graves, large artifacts, old farm tools, drainage or irrigation pipes and determine the location and size of past buildings, kilns used for manufacturing fertilizer, ice and food storage cellars, outhouses, cisterns, cemeteries, and fences.
  • Study the original roofing and bricks
  • Donate displays for Tudor Hall
  • Raise money to support Tudor Hall
• Booth Research Centers
  • Continue financial support of Historical Society of Harford County Booth Research Center
  • Help set up a Booth book library in Harford County
• Form an Sound Organization for JBBS
  • Raise funds
  • Recruit members and volunteer leaders/officers
  • Continue improving this website
  • Improve the newsletter: Booth History Spotlight

Volunteers who wish to help with these or other tasks are welcomed.