Arlington House
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Just before Virginia seceded from the United States during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln asked Robert E. Lee, one of the greatest military minds in all the United States history, to lead the Army in the Civil War. Robert E. Lee did not immediately accept, but rather waited to see what his home state of Virginia would do. When it seceded, he became their army’s leader.
Here lies his home as it was during the Civil War. As space ran out of the existing cemeteries for war-time injuries, President Lincoln made the decision to make Arlington National Cemetery on his front doorstep as a reminder for Lee should he return to his home.
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- Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument
- Arlington House the Robert E. Lee Memorial
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site
- Claude Moore Colonial Farm National Park
- Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve
- Ford’s Theatre
- Fort Marcy
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- Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
- Jones Point Lighthouse
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- Lincoln Memorial
- Marine Corps War Memorial
- Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
- Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens
- Old Post Office Tower
- River Farm
- Roaches Run Waterfowl Sanctuary
- Turkey Run Park
- Theodore Roosevelt Island
- Washington Monument
- Women in Military Service for America Memorial
- Yorktown Battlefield - Part of Colonial National Historical Park
- Ramsay House Visitor Center
- The Smithsonian
- Baltimore Washington Parkway
- Clara Barton National Historic Site
- Fort Foote Park
- Fort Washington Park
- Glen Echo Park
- Harmony Hall
- Oxon Cove Park and Oxon Hill Farm
- Piscataway Park
- African American Civil War Memorial
- Anacostia Park
- Capitol Hill Parks
- Civil War Defenses of Washington
- Constitution Gardens
- Daingerfield Island
- Fort Dupont Park
- Fort Hunt Park
- Great Falls Park
- Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens
- Lady Bird Johnson Memorial Park and Lyndon Baines Memorial Grove
- LBJ Memorial Grove on the Potomac
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
- Meridian Hill Park
- National Capital Parks East
- National Mall and Memorial Parks
- Peirce Mill
- Pennsylvania Avenue
- President’s Park
- Riverside Park
- Rock Creek Park
- The Old Stone House
- Thomas Jefferson Memorial
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts
- World War Ii Memorial
