Arlington, Gloucestershire

Arlington
Arlington
 Arlington shown within Gloucestershire
OS grid referenceSP1006
Shire countyGloucestershire
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Police Gloucestershire
Fire Gloucestershire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
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Coordinates: 51°45′N 1°51′W / 51.75°N 01.85°W / 51.75; -01.85

Arlington is a village in Gloucestershire, England.

It is known for being the ancestral home of John Custis II, who emigrated to the Colony of Virginia and named his palatial four-story brick mansion (built in 1675) in Northumberland County, Virginia, "Arlington" after this town.[1] Arlington would be abandoned after just 50 years, but the name would be used by his great-great-grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, as the name for his large Arlington Estate on the south shore of the Potomac River near what is now Washington, D.C.[2] Upon GWP Custis's death in 1857, the estate passed to his only child, Mary Custis Lee, wife of Robert E. Lee. [[3]] American Civil War General Robert E. Lee, and today is known as Arlington National Cemetery.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Custis, John. The Letterbook of John Custis IV of Williamsburg, 1717-1742. Josephine Little Zuppan, ed. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, p. 18; Guy, Chris. "Project Casts Light on House Lost to Past." Baltimore Sun. 8 September 2001.
  2. ↑ Cultural Landscape Program. Arlington House: The Robert E. Lee Memorial Cultural Landscape Report. National Capital Region. National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Washington, D.C.: 2001, p. 25. Accessed 2011-09-24
  3. ↑ http://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore-the-Cemetery/History/Arlington-House

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