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George Washington Parke Custis (April 30, 1781 – October 10, 1857) was an American antiquarian, author, playwright, and plantation owner. He was a veteran of the ...
USS George Washington Parke Custis was a barge acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War for use as a balloon-launching platform to spy on Confederate defenses from afar. This initial balloon experiment by John A. Dahlgren led to intensified balloon spying during the remainder of the war.
Portrait of Mary Anna Custis by Auguste Hervieu (1830) Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee (October 1, 1807 – November 5, 1873) was the wife of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee and the last private owner of Arlington Estate. She was the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis who was the grandson of Martha Washington, the wife of George ...
Hence, the artifacts were passed down into the hands of her grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, a prominent Virginia slaveholder and plantation owner who had served in the War of 1812.
While the idea of cutting up a piece of history like Washington’s tent now is unthinkable, 200 years ago a man named George Washington Parke Custis (the father of Martha Washington’s great ...
George Washington was the first President of the United States. His wife Martha was known as "Lady Washington." The honorary title of First Lady was invented years later. The ward of George and Martha Washington, George Washington Parke Custis began construction on Arlington House, then in the District of Columbia in 1802. He intending it to ...
Arlington House is the historic Custis family mansion built by George Washington Parke Custis from 1803–1818 as a memorial to George Washington.Currently maintained by the National Park Service, it is located in the U.S. Army's Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia (formerly Alexandria, D.C.).
John Parke Custis (November 27, 1754 – November 5, 1781) was an American planter and politician. Custis was a son of Martha Dandridge Custis (later Washington) and Daniel Parke Custis, and later, the stepson of George Washington. [1] [2]