Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, contains the remains of more than 400,000 people from the United States and 13 other countries, buried there since the 1860s. More than three ...

He moved 57 enslaved people, including Charles Syphax, to the property that would become Arlington House Plantation. Custis, who was white, fathered a child with an enslaved Black woman, Arianna ...

After the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Mary Custis Lee departed Arlington House to join her husband, leaving the mansion and many George Washington family heirlooms in Selina Norris Gray’s ...

Library of Congress The house at Arlington was inherited by Mary Custis Lee (in 1830). Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial After inheriting the house at Arlington, Mary Custis Lee's ...

Sponsor Message Selina Gray was the personal house servant to Robert E. Lee's wife, Mary Custis Lee, at Arlington House. To show how deep the roots are here — Mrs. Lee inherited the plantation ...

The Arlington House Family Circle was formed in 2021 with support from the National Park Service by descendants of enslaved persons, including the Branham, Custis, Gray, Henry, Norris, Parks and ...

Arlington House, from which the county gets its name, was originally built by George Washington Parke Custis and his slaves in 1802. The estate played a crucial role in the life of Robert E.

Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial is a mansion on federal land within Arlington National Cemetery and administered by the National Park Service. Built by Martha Custis Washington’s son ...

Arlington House was originally built as a memorial to George Washington, by Washington’s grandson George Washington Parke Custis. Custis’ daughter eventually married Robert E. Lee. Lee never ...