The Arlington mansion, fronted by massive columns five feet around and a sweeping portico, sits high on a bluff overlooking the Potomac River with a commanding view of the nation’s capital.

At the time, George Washington Parke Custis was 16 and attending Princeton ... a National Park Service ranger and programs manager at Arlington House, where the lives of the Washingtons, their ...

Charles Syphax was among the slaves taken to George Washington Parke Custis’ plantation in Arlington, Virginia. He ran the dining room at the huge mansion known as Arlington House (above), which ...

Named George Washington Parke Custis, or "Wash" for short ... a National Park Service ranger and programs manager at the Arlington House estate, which belonged to the Washingtons, tells Barakat.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Here are five things you should know about Arlington House, the historic home of Gen. Robert E. Lee located at Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington House was originally built ...

Arlington House, located on a high hill within Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, is one of many national park sites along the George Washington Memorial Parkway. Built by George ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — George Washington’s adopted son was ... At the time, George Washington Parke Custis was 16 and attending Princeton, one of several schools he bounced in and out of.

Hence, the artifacts were passed down into the hands of her grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, a prominent ... turned the couple's grand mansion in Arlington, Virginia, into a private ...

George Washington Parke Custis. An author and playwright ... Custis so admired the nation’s first president that he had Arlington House built in the early 1800s partly as a memorial to ...

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, George Washington Parke ...

The children from the family portrait—whom I had learned were Eleanor (Nelly) and George Washington (Wash) Parke Custis—weren’t there. The Custis children’s names were absent for good ...

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP ... tend to his amusements,” the founding father wrote. At the time, George Washington Parke Custis was 16 and attending Princeton, one of several schools he bounced ...