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Il y a 4 jours · Arlington House, constructed between 1802 and 1818, was the nation's first memorial to George Washington. In 1778, John Parke Custis—the son of Martha Washington and her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis—purchased 1,100 acres of land in northern Virginia, on rolling hills overlooking Washington, D.C. In 1802, John Parke Custis's ...
Il y a 3 jours · A statue of Robert E. Lee was one of the two statues (the other is George Washington) representing Virginia in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. It was removed from the Capitol on December 21, 2020, after a state commission voted to replace it with a statue of Civil Rights activist Barbara Rose Johns . [ 179 ]
Il y a 4 jours · Arlington Estate was established by George Washington's adopted grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, to be a living memorial to the first president. Custis's daughter, Mary, married U.S. Army 1st Lieutenant Robert E. Lee in 1831.
Il y a 4 jours · The estate was formerly the property of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and his wife, Mary Custis Lee (a descendent of Martha Washington), and Meigs intended to make the property uninhabitable, should the Lees ever wish to return. Under Meigs' orders, Union soldiers constructed a 20'x10' stone and masonry burial vault in the rose ...
Il y a 3 jours · Print of the proposed Washington Monument by architect Robert Mills, c. 1845 –1848 Bronze statue of George Washington in the monument's western alcove. George Washington (1732–1799), hailed as the father of his country, and as the leader who was "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen", as Maj. Gen. 'Light-Horse Harry' Lee eulogized at Washington's December ...
Il y a 4 jours · Freedman's Village was established by the federal government in 1863 on the grounds of the Custis and Lee estates, what is today Arlington National Cemetery, the Pentagon and the Navy Annex ...
Il y a 2 jours · George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was a Founding Father of the United States, military officer, and farmer who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
