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By HALP

  • Custis Washington's plantation

    Started off 1100 acres pg 11

  • Arlington House construction begins

    Starting off with 1100 acres bought by John Parke Curtis in 1778. pg 11
  • Mary Custis marries Robert E. Lee

    Mary Custis marries Robert E. Lee

    pg 11

  • Lee joins Confederates

    pg 34

  • Virginia secedes

  • Freedman's village setup

    pg 52
  • Montgomery C. Meigs sanctions Arlington to be a military burial ground

    Montgomery C. Meigs sanctions Arlington to be a military burial ground

    Meigs was a Unionist Brevet Major General who was put in charge of Arlington. He acted as a principal architect

  • Meigs designs large memorials

    "Bigger meant better" pg 74 - 75

  • First white marble headstones replace wooden crosses

    mid 1870's
    pg 83

  • Headstones engraved with name and state of serviceman

    pg 84

  • Freedman village cleared

    Added 142 acres. pg 99

  • 56 acres added

    pg 99

  • Meigs improves roads, gates and appearance of Arlington

    pg 99

  • More improvements

    "Workers relocated graves, paved new roadways, reseeded grass, and built new stone walls" pg 129 - 130
  • WWI Tomb of the Unknown Soldier completed

    WWI Tomb of the Unknown Soldier completed

    pg 152

  • Tomb of Unknown Soldier replaced

    Steps added and river view restored. pg 170 - 171
  • Restoration of Lee Mansion completed

    Restoration of Lee Mansion completed

    Gardens and landscape redesigned to original early Republican style by Charles Moore. pg 167

  • 200 acres added from Fort Myer

    pg 189
  • President John F. Kennedy buried

    President John F. Kennedy buried

    In a 600sq foot plot with an eternal flame. pg 213 and 219

  • New Kennedy memorial finished

    pg 227
  • 70 acres added

    70 acres added

    Roughly 624 acres in total