Built by George Washington’s adopted grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, Arlington House was meant to be a living memorial to George Washington.
Arlington's link to George Washington is quite interesting.
The stinking things that went on around that estate by the state. Puts a pall over it, actually.
Secretary of war said I’ll be damned if General Lee will come back here again and buried the Union dead around the property.
I lived for two years at Fort Myers, which was part of the property and a military base with an INCREDIBLE history.
Where the Wright Brothers sold the military the idea of airplanes bombing and recon, as well as many other WOW type events.