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Originally Posted by glatt
Arlington, Virgina is named after the Custis estate, which was also named Arlington. (The Custis Estate was taken over during the Civil War, and is now the home of Arlington National Cemetery.) Custis named his estate after another family estate on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake. That estate was named after the Earl of Arlington, who was the patron of the Custis family.
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Did not Robert E. Lee marry a Custis?? And the USA seize it?
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