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| | THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION SUPPORTS VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE'S EFFORTS TO PRESERVE GEORGE WASHINGTON'S TENTS |
 | | In 1999, the Colonial National Historical Park in Yorktown, VA, was awarded a $162,000 Save America's Treasures federal challenge matching grant to restore, preserve, and prepare for public exhibition the only surviving Revolutionary War tents used by George Washington. |
 | | Until 1997, both the office and dining tents were on public display at the Colonial National Historical Park, when water damage from faulty exhibition cases created the urgent need for their conservation. |
 | | Passed from the first president to his grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, and then on to his great granddaughter, Mary Custis Lee, the tents were left in Arlington when her husband, Robert E. Lee, accepted command of the Confederate Army. |
| www.nationaltrust.org /news/docs/20000204_washingtons_tents.html (416 words) |
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