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  1. George Washington Custis Lewis (1810–1811), died in infancy. Martha Eleanor Angela Lewis Conrad (1813–1839), married Charles M. Conrad. Eleanor also suffered miscarriages in 1800, 1804, 1806, 1808, 1809, 1811, 1812 and 1814. Upon her marriage, Nelly Lewis inherited about 80 slaves from her father's estate. Her grandfather Daniel Parke ...

  2. 3 days ago · A statue of Robert E. Lee was one of the two statues (the other is George Washington) representing Virginia in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. It was removed from the Capitol on December 21, 2020, after a state commission voted to replace it with a statue of Civil Rights activist Barbara Rose Johns . [ 179 ]

  3. 2 days ago · America’s Last Englishman. A new book examines the ever-fascinating Marble Man. Sumantra Maitra. Oct 14, 2024 12:01 AM. Robert E Lee: A Life, Allen Guelzo, Alfred A. Knopf, 588 pages. I first ...

  4. 3 days ago · Mount Vernon: The story of George Washington’s country estate. Jeremy Musson looks at the remarkable history and preservation of Mount Vernon, the country home of America’s first president, George. Once home to JFK, 1400, 34th Street, is for sale at $4.675 million Credit: Sotheby's International Realty.

  5. 5 days ago · George Washington was introduced to Martha Dandridge Custis, a widow who was living at White House Plantation on the south shore of the Pamunkey River in New Kent County, Virginia, by friends of Martha when George was on leave from the French and Indian War.

  6. 3 days ago · In 1802, George Washington Parke Custis, the grandson of George Washington's wife Martha through her first marriage, began building Arlington House at the present-day Arlington National Cemetery on land that he inherited from John Parke Custis, his natural father, following his death.

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  8. 6 days ago · George Washington — ‘If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.’