US 301 continues northeast as A.P. Hill Boulevard , which enters the eponymous military installation . East of the U.S. Army base 's main entrance , the U.S. Highway passes through the forested Army reservation for without an intersection . Near the eastern edge of Fort A.P. Hill , US 301 passes the site of the Garrett farmhouse and barn where John Wilkes Booth was killed by federal troops 12 days after he had assassinated Abraham Lincoln . At the eastern edge of the military base , the highway intersects US 17 ( Tidewater Trail ) . US 301 becomes an undivided highway as it passes through the town of Port Royal as Main Street , then uses the James Madison Memorial Bridge to cross the Rappahannock River into King George County
assassinated Abraham Lincoln
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
U.S. Route 301 in Virginia