Built by George Washington Parke Custis between 1802 and 1818 to serve as a memorial ... into the family and lived there for 30 years — Civil War General Robert E. Lee.

click image for close-up George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were wed in January of 1759. Both were twenty-seven years old, and they had spent a total of fewer than three weeks together.

A descendant of John Ball, the medieval English preacher who led the first popular rebellion in England, George ... Martha Dandridge Custis in 1759 immediately transformed Washington into one ...

Built by George Washington Parke Custis between 1802 and 1818 to serve as a memorial ... into the family and lived there for 30 years — Civil War General Robert E. Lee. Congress dedicated the ...