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.

The tent itself was on loan from Mary Custis Lee, the great-granddaughter of Washington’s wife, Martha. Lee’s father, George ...

From his isolated post, he learns in letters that his second eldest son, Rooney Lee, was having difficulties at Harvard. Mary's father, George Washington Park Custis, dies, leaving Robert E.

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 ...