From George Washington to Robert E. Lee, Arlington's history is as complicated as our own. Here's how it became the hallowed ...

First called Arlington Estate, the site was established by George Washington Parke Custis ... in the U.S. Army. Custis left Arlington to Mary, and then to her oldest son. Lee, who would later ...

It was George Washington Parke Custis' cousin Mary Randolph, who died in 1828. Randolph drew on her experience running a plantation when she wrote "The Virginia House-Wife," published in 1824 and ...