Arlington House is located in northern Virginia on a hill overlooking the nation's capital. The mansion was constructed by George Washington Parke Custis on an 1,100-acre plantation between 1802-1818 to honor the first president of the United States, George Washington, who also was Custis' step grandfather. The construction was done by some of the nearly 5-dozen enslaved people inherited by Custis from Martha Washington's dowery and brought from Mount Vernon. More...