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Há 1 dia · Matthew Skic, the museum’s curator of exhibitions, explained that Mary Custis Lee, the great-great-granddaughter of former first lady Martha Washington, owned Washington’s tents from the ...
Há 2 dias · An artifact that originally belonged to President George Washington recently landed in the hands of a Virginia history enthusiast – and then a museum – all thanks to Goodwill. The piece is currently on display in the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. Collector Richard “Dana” Moore stumbled across the artifact – which ...
Há 22 horas · Skic told Fox News that the tent was probably loaned to the Jamestown Exposition in 1907 by a Washington relative. “At that time, Mary Custis Lee, Martha Washington’s great-great-granddaughter and daughter of Robert E. Lee, owned Washington’s tents from the Revolutionary War,” he explained.
Há 4 dias · Mary was the only surviving child of George Washington Parke Custis, George Washington's stepgrandson, and Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis, daughter of William Fitzhugh and Ann Bolling Randolph. Robert and Mary married on June 30, 1831, at Arlington House, her parents' house just across the Potomac from Washington.
Há 1 dia · Fabric from George Washington’s tent sold at Goodwill auction for $1,300. An artifact that originally belonged to President George Washington recently landed in the hands of a Virginia history enthusiast – and then a museum – all thanks to Goodwill. The piece is currently on display in the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.
Há 2 dias · George Washington - Plantation, Marriage, Revolutionary: Immediately on resigning his commission, Washington was married (January 6, 1759) to Martha Dandridge, the widow of Daniel Parke Custis. She was a few months older than he, was the mother of two children living and two dead, and possessed one of the considerable fortunes of ...
Há 1 dia · 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.
