| Abingdon | |
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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Abingdon_foundation.jpg) Reconstructed Abingdon house foundation (2014) | |
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| Alternative names | Abingdon Plantation Alexander-Custis Plantation |
| General information | |
| Type | Private residence |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| Location | Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Arlington County, Virginia |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 38°51′05″N 77°02′40″W / 38.851371°N 77.04443938°W |
| Completed | by 1746 (first building) |
| Destroyed | 1930 |
| Owner | Gerard Alexander I Robert Alexander John Parke Custis Dr. David Stuart Walter Alexander General Alexander Hunter Alexander Hunter (2nd) Alfred Richards Brick Company New Washington Brick Company Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad United States government Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority |
Abingdon (also known as the Alexander-Custis Plantation)[1] was an 18th- and 19th-century plantation owned by the prominent Alexander, Custis, Stuart, and Hunter families and worked at times by slaves. The plantation's site is now located in Arlington County in the U.S. state of Virginia.
Abingdon is known as the birthplace of Eleanor "Nelly" Parke Custis Lewis (March 31, 1779 – July 15, 1852), a granddaughter of Martha Washington and a step-granddaughter of United States President George Washington.[2][3][4] Published accounts have credited Abingdon as being the home to the progenitor of all weeping willows (Salix babylonica) living in the United States.[5] Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, which occupies part of Abingdon's grounds, contains indoor and outdoor displays that commemorate the plantation's history.[6]
- ^ Templeman, Eleanor Lee (1959). ""Abingdon", Alexander-Custis Plantation". Arlington Heritage: Vignettes of a Virginia County. New York: Avenel Books, a division of Crown Publishers, Inc. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-0-517-16709-0. OCLC 586063151. Retrieved December 26, 2017 – via Google Books.
- ^ Lowther, Minnie Kendall (1922). "Abingdon - The Birthplace of Nellie Custis". Mount Vernon, Arlington and Woodlawn: history of these national shrines from the earliest titles of ownership to the present, with biographical sketches, portraits, and interesting reminiscences of the families, who founded them. Washington, D.C.: C. H. Potter & Co., Inc. pp. 57–58. OCLC 1106843. Retrieved March 13, 2016 – via Google Books.
- ^ Snowden, p. 10.
- ^ Denniston, Eliza Olver, ed. (November 1912). "Passing of an Old Home". American Monthly Magazine. 41 (5). New York: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution: 200. Retrieved April 28, 2011.
- ^ Multiple sources:
- Lossing, Benson J. (May 1862). "American Historical Trees: Gate's Weeping Willow". Harper's New Monthly Magazine. 24 (144). New York: Harper & Brothers: 727–728. Retrieved May 6, 2011 – via Google Books.
- Lossing, Benson J. (1871). "The Weeping Willow". Scribner's Monthly. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. pp. 386–388. LCCN 72155058. OCLC 609717409. Retrieved December 26, 2017 – via HathiTrust Digital Library.
- Lossing, Benson J. (February 22, 1881). "The Weeping-Willow". Harper's Young People: An Illustrated History. 2 (69). New York: Harper & Brothers: 259–260. Retrieved May 6, 2011 – via Google Books.
- Lossing, Benson J. (1889). "Washington's Last Surviving Bondswoman". Hours with the Living Men and Women of the Revolution: A Pilgrimage. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. pp. 171–172. OCLC 35622771. Retrieved December 26, 2017 – via Google Books.
- Marden, Orison Swett; Devitt, George Raywood, eds. (1907). The Weeping Willow — Salix Babylonica. Vol. 4. New York and Washington: Bureau of National Literature and Art. pp. 439–440. OCLC 45212933. Retrieved May 6, 2011 – via Google Books.
- ^ Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (November 12, 1998). "Historic Site At Airport Open to Travelers And Public". Press Release. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. Archived from the original on November 15, 2015. Retrieved November 15, 2015..