Arlington (Plantation : Va.)

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Arlington (Plantation : Va.)

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Arlington House (Plantation : Va.)

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Custis-Lee Mansion (Plantation : Va.)

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Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial (Va.)

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1803

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1818

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The younger Custis decided to build his home on the property in 1802 following the death of Martha Washington and three years after the death of George Washington. After acquiring the property, Custis renamed it "Arlington" after the Custis family's homestead on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.[7]

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Arlington House was built at a high point on a 1,100-acre (445 ha) estate that Custis's father, John Parke Custis, had purchased in 1778 and named "Mount Washington"\

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In 1802, George Washington Parke Custis inherited 1,100-acres from his father, John Parke Custis, and established Arlington Plantation, which contains the home he built, "Arlington House." His daughter, Mary Anna Randolph Custis, married Robert E. Lee, and they inherited Arlington House and the plantation surrounding it in 1857. The property was confiscated by the federal government during the Civil War.

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