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Hope Park was an 18th and 19th-century plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia, where Dr. David Stuart, an old friend of and correspondent with George Washington lived with his wife, Eleanor Calvert Cu
20th century photo of the mill
Hope Park Mansion c. 1937
Fairfax County Courthouse
George Washington Parke Custis was an American antiquarian, author, and playwright. He was a veteran of the War of 1812. His father John Parke Custis served in the American Revolution with then-Genera
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…Court House, and then Fairfax, in 1805, and he also served as a trustee of a school in Centreville. While two Custis siblings, Eleanor Parke Custis and George Washington Parke Custis, lived at Mount Vernon, Philadelphia, and New York City, with George and Martha Washington, they also visited their mother at Hope Park. Dr. Stuart…
Salt print, c. 1856
John Parke Custis, c. 1774, by Charles Willson Peale
Eleanor Calvert, c. 1780, possibly by John Ramage
The Washington Family (Edward Savage, 1789–1796). From left to right: George Washington Parke Custis, George Washington, Nelly Custis, Martha Washington, and an enslaved servant (probably William Lee or Christopher Sheels).